This maintenance release for the v0.10 series focuses on improving rumble performance for modern controllers and enhancing device compatibility.
The core of this update is a significant overhaul of rumble handling for devices using the HID-over-GATT Profile (HOGP). By switching to acknowledged GATT writes, we now ensure rumble commands are delivered more reliably to these modern Bluetooth LE controllers. This improvement allowed us to remove the previous artificial throttling, unlocking more responsive and immediate force-feedback. We also optimized the "welcome rumble" sequence to reduce CPU usage during controller initialization.
To improve forward-compatibility, the driver can now heuristically detect devices that use the HOGP protocol, making it more robust when encountering new hardware. Additionally, the device descriptor for the GuliKit ES PRO has been added, which aids in debugging and is a first step towards full support.
Finally, this release includes several smaller fixes and cleanups, including corrected AppStream metainfo for better software center integration and improved internal handling of the uhid module dependency.
A big thank you to everyone in the community for your contributions, testing, and detailed bug reports.
Special thanks go to @GloriousEggroll for starting a series of improvements. In this release, his contributions have helped to increase rumble reliability and modernize module dependency handling.
Headlines:
- xpadneo, installer: Properly handle metainfo in the Makefile
Kai Krakow (8):
xpadneo, core: move softdep on uhid into the driver
xpadneo: Rename log messages from ff to rumble
xpadneo, debug: Add GuliKit ES PRO descriptor as a known descriptor
xpadneo, core: Add heuristic detection of HOGP protocol
xpadneo, rumble: Reduce CPU busy usage during welcome rumble
xpadneo, device: Use acknowledged GATT Write Request for rumble
xpadneo, rumble: Eliminate artificial rumble throttling for HOGP
xpadneo, installer: Properly handle metainfo in the Makefile
LeahTheSlug (1):
xpadneo, meta: Fix AppStream metainfo file name and contents
