You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.
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whaleross@lemmy.world 2 days agoAny idea about USB drivers if it will ever be possible? I have synths and gear that needs firmware upgrades with flashers that only run on Win/Mac and I haven’t been able to get them to work with Wine.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, thanks. I did it a couple of times with the free web dev vm of Windows 10 but it is only valid for 30 days so it gets annoying quickly. After identifying the chipset in some devices I’ve tried to get the Linux toolkit or just the flashing tool from the manufacturers but for whatever reason they will not give it out unless you are a customer of their chipset.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.
Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wouldn’t this rather be the case of proxy hardware layer for any driver to talk to that gets forwarded to the USB port in Linux? I mean the drivers are not for PC component but for talking with whatever device and chipset is connected to the PC over USB.