Sony has released a new “hid-PlayStation” Linux kernel driver to support the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, and will also be used to support other PlayStation hardware on Linux.
This new Linux kernel driver supports PlayStation 5’s “DualSense” handle in both USB and Bluetooth modes and supports motion sensors, LED lights, touchpads, light bars, vibration, etc.
When announcing the new driver, Sony plans to transfer part of the Sony Interactive Entertainment hardware support from the existing “hid-sony” to the “hid-PlayStation” driver. It is reported that the initial form of this driver has more than 1,400 lines of code to meet the needs of the PS5 controller.
PS5 will be launched in North America, Japan, Australia, and other places on November 12, including two versions of the optical drive and a digital version without an optical drive, equipped with AMD custom 8-core Zen 2 CPU, AMD custom GPU with RDNA2 architecture.
