Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Joystick Driver Lands In Linux 5.19
The new Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Joystick driver is for the Sense HAT add-on board developed as part of the Astro Pi mission that took the Raspberry Pi into space at the ISS. The Sense HAT though can be bought via retail channels as a $30 add-on board for the Raspberry Pi single board computers. The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT provides an 8x8 RGB LED matrix, a five button joystick, and sensors for gyroscope / accelerometer / magnetometer / temperature / barometric pressure / humidity. With Linux 5.19 there is mainline support for its joystick.
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
There has been an out-of-tree Linux driver for years while recently was cleaned up and worked on by Red Hat engineers to get into a proper state for mainline.
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
In addition to this new Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Joystick driver, there is also a new driver for the Azoteq IQS7222A/B/C capacitive touch controll plus various other hardware support additions to existing input drivers. More details on the input driver updates for Linux 5.19 via this Git merge.
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