Contributed by rueda on from the the-joy-of-openbsd dept.
With the following
commit,
Thomas Frohwein (thfr@)
added a joystick/gamecontroller driver to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: thfr@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/01/22 22:08:36 Modified files: etc : MAKEDEV.common etc/etc.alpha : MAKEDEV.md etc/etc.amd64 : MAKEDEV.md […] sys/dev/usb : files.usb uhid.c uhid.h sys/sys : conf.h Added files: share/man/man4 : ujoy.4 sys/dev/usb : ujoy.c Log message: introduce ujoy(4), a restricted subset of uhid(4) for gamecontrollers. This includes ujoy_hid_is_collection() to work around limitations of hid_is_collection() until this can be combined without fallout. input, testing with 8bitdo controller, and ok brynet@ PS4 controller testing, fix for hid_is_collection, and ok mglocker@
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The commit message was a little too terse. Here what else is of note:
- Creates /dev/ujoy/* device nodes with read permissions.
- Besides the restrictions for these devices, this also separates this
device class from other uhid devices, reducing applications poking
at all uhid devices that they don't have any business interacting
with.
- Main consumers are devel/sdl{,2} ports. sdl2 is updated
simultaneously to use new device nodes; needs >= sdl2-2.0.14p0 to
work with. A patch for sdl1 is offered on ports@.
- brynet@'s controller is a "NEXT SNES controller", not 8bitdo.
This is great news for users who #PlayOnBSD.
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