No more Rio 500 driver?

Posted Oct 19, 2019 3:48 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: Five new stable kernels

Does this mean that I won't be able to use my shiny 64MB Rio 500 anymore??

No more Rio 500 driver?

Posted Oct 19, 2019 17:19 UTC (Sat) by nivedita76 (subscriber, #121790) [Link] (1 responses)

Read the commit log.. the driver's apparently not been used since 2001.

No more Rio 500 driver?

Posted Oct 20, 2019 3:41 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

I was just being facetious. :-)

I suppose it's kinda interesting how that device had its own specialized driver in the Linux Kernel when later similar devices might've just been equally served by the USB mass storage driver. But then again, the Rio 500 predated the iPod (and other competing mass-storage music players) by almost two years, IIRC.

64 MB is barely enough for around one hour of low-fidelity MP3. My, how times have changed...