AtomHeartFather to Linux [email protected]English • 1 year agoThe Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clonesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up117arrow-down1external-linkThe Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clonesarstechnica.comAtomHeartFather to Linux [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-linux-coders-turning-the-rog-ally-and-other-handhelds-into-steam-deck-clones/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoCoders? Isn’t all that it takes is to load holoiso into a flash drive and install it on the ally?
minus-squareBjörn TantaulinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI bet some of the things in the Ally need new drivers that aren’t in the Kernel yet.
minus-square@sugar_in_your_tealinkEnglish2•1 year agoYup, as a software dev myself, I doubt anyone is really putting any development effort into it. Maybe a little config to map the controller properly or something, but it’s close enough hardware-wise that there really shouldn’t be much work involved.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThere are firmware fixes and such that need to be implemented, so yes, coders.
Coders? Isn’t all that it takes is to load holoiso into a flash drive and install it on the ally?
I bet some of the things in the Ally need new drivers that aren’t in the Kernel yet.
Yup, as a software dev myself, I doubt anyone is really putting any development effort into it. Maybe a little config to map the controller properly or something, but it’s close enough hardware-wise that there really shouldn’t be much work involved.
There are firmware fixes and such that need to be implemented, so yes, coders.