`pf-xusb` registers only GUID_DEVINTERFACE_XUSB and exposes no HID collection, so Steam's hidapi enumeration, DirectInput, joy.cpl and WGI/GameInput cannot see the pad at all — only classic XInputGetState via xinput1_4's interface walk ever does. A reporter spent two weeks on a dead controller for exactly that reason; switching the client to DualSense, a real HID pad through the pf-gamepad UMDF driver, fixed it in seconds. This gives the Xbox pad that same footing: a new device_type 4 on the existing HID minidriver, identified as a Bluetooth Xbox Wireless Controller (045E:0B13). The wired ids the tree already uses (045E:028E, 045E:02EA) are vendor-class XUSB/GIP devices with no HID interface on real hardware, so a HID child claiming one is a device that has never existed and has nothing for Windows to promote. Driver: identity, a constructed 132-byte Game Pad report descriptor, neutral report, strings and the pf_xboxwireless hardware id. Host: `xbox_proto`, the byte-exact codec mirroring that descriptor, with 11 layout tests. One shared-path fix falls out. The timer completed every pended READ_REPORT with the full 64-byte slot, and `copy_to_output` REFUSES a source longer than hidclass's buffer rather than truncating it — so a pad declaring a shorter report would have failed every read and looked dead. Report length is now per-identity; it returns 64 for all four pre-existing pads, so their behaviour is provably unchanged. NOT BUILT AND NOT RUN ON WINDOWS — no box was reachable. The Rust codec and its tests pass on macOS; the driver, the INF and the report descriptor have never been compiled, infverif'd, or seen by a real pad. The descriptor is constructed rather than captured, which matters because we claim a real Microsoft VID/PID and SDL/Steam/Windows carry stock mappings keyed off it — diff it against a capture before shipping.
pf-driver-proto
The shared host ↔ driver binary contract for punktfunk's Windows pf-vdisplay virtual display — the control IOCTLs and the IDD-push frame transport, defined exactly once.
It's a path dependency of both the host workspace (crates/punktfunk-host)
and the out-of-workspace driver workspace (packaging/windows/drivers/),
so it must resolve identically from either build graph. That's why it's deliberately self-contained:
no_std (+ alloc), platform-neutral (GUID/LUID are plain integers each side converts to its own OS
type), and free of *.workspace = true inheritance.
Defining every wire struct here — with const size/offset asserts and bytemuck round-trips — turns
host↔driver ABI drift into a compile error instead of a silent frame or IOCTL corruption.
See the crate root (src/) for the wire types; the Windows virtual-display design is in
the internal planning repo (punktfunk-planning: windows-virtual-display-rust-port.md).