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OS: Chrome
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Type: Feature

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issue 842885



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Xbox One S gamepad doesn't work on Chrome OS devices

Project Member Reported by mattreynolds@chromium.org, May 10 2018

Issue description

Support for unrecognized Xbox One devices was added to the xpad Linux kernel module in version 4.7:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7f1429389ec1aa25e042bb13451385fbb596f8c

(A product ID for the Xbox One S gamepad was added in a later commit, but is not required for Xbox One S support.)

Currently, the most recent kernel in use by any Chrome OS device is 4.4:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices

Chrome should support genuine Xbox One gamepads on Linux-based systems even when the kernel fails to recognize them.
 
This is already done for OSX, which implements an Xbox 360/Xbox One driver as "XboxDataFetcher".
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Blockedon: 842885
Owner: mattreynolds@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
We can't implement this from inside Chrome because Xbox One devices do not expose a HID interface over USB. We'll need to make changes at the kernel level to support these devices on ChromeOS.

Comment 4 by vapier@chromium.org, May 17 2018

doesn't that just make this a dupe of the other issue ?  it's not like we can do anything unique over here.

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