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The Final Windows Audio Driver For Steam Deck OLED Is Now Released - Steam Deck HQ (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 2 months ago by SteamDeckHQ to c/[email protected]

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All the Windows OS drivers for the Steam Deck OLED were released, except for the speakers for the device. But now, the driver is here so people can install Windows...if they want to!

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[–] cmhe 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On a more interesting topic, the SteamDeck platform drivers are still not merged into mainline Linux... :'(

Last news about it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Platform-Driver-2024

[+] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] cmhe 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, it is about code quality. And the same codebase should work on different hardware, which is not something that is required in downstream forks.

But it is sad to see that the driver was submitted in the past, is still actively developed and improved, but there doesn't seem to be plans of submitting them again.

Also I don't think that a platform driver is so complicated that it requires such a long time for mainlineing. It not a filesystem or VPN.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] cmhe 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing of this is a burden, it is just part of being a good contributor that reads and follows the rules. Contributing is pretty easy, when you have read and are following the guides. If you haven't already, you should give it a try.

I am pretty sure that this isn't the first contribution of Valve to the Linux kernel. It sounds more to me like "works for me, don't care about others" attitude. Which is not a good attitude to have when working in any collaborative project. (Not necessarily against the developers, could also be management.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luckily their work is still done in the open and I can use the driver on my Deck on OpenSUSE despite it not being in the kernel.

[–] warmaster 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Will they upstream those drivers to the kernel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well, for that look at @[email protected]'s link.