In addition to Valve contributing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for enhancing the Linux gaming experience and their AMD-powered Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is making use of Mesa's open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.
Linux consulting firm Igalia who has long seen funded work from Valve wrote a blog post today to outline their recent efforts given last week's Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller announcement. Igalia highlighted the work they have been doing for the Steam Frame around FEX for x86/x86_64 emulation on ARM for the Qualcomm Snapdragon powered VR device. Plus the work done to Turnip for serving as the Vulkan driver on the Steam Frame
Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-Turnip-Vulkan
21 Comments
mrfriki@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 277d
I’m really excited with all this ARM compatibility stuff. Hopefully we will be able to install steam OS on Android devices at some point.
four@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 277d
Is this how we get Linux phones?
bonusss@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 277d
That would be such a turn of events!
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 276d
No the drivers arnt available, fuck Qualcomm and ARM.
Maybe RISC in time?
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 276d
Actually, often the are available, but of such low code quality and depending on various out of tree changes in the Linux kernel that it is easier to rewrite them if you want to get them into mainline Linux.
And RISC-V has more or less the same problem.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
I think Qualcomm drivers are the least of our problems. Getting all the other drivers for 5G, GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass, WiFi etc is going to be an issue since they're all vendor loaded blobs now.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 276d
Android is already a Linux-based OS.
kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 276d
ive always wanted to try VR games but the ps5 vr headset was too locked down to the ps5. Never even wanted the oculus cause of meta's bullshit. Will definitely be getting this.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 276d
100% instant buy, as long as it's under a certain price point. Even if it isn't... I've been holding off on VR for so long, this is gonna be the thing that does it.
bunnyBoy@pawb.social · 7 pts · 276d
VR is an awesome experience if you're into it. When I first tried out my Vive it was mind blowing. Truly something that you can't really get any other way. I'm absolutely getting a Frame on release
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 276d
Honestly, I was blown away by beat saber. I almost bought a meta quest, but I hated the required Facebook integration. I won't do it. This will be a million times better
vividspecter@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 275d
A Facebook account isn't needed anymore (even for developer mode) but it makes perfect sense to buy a much more open, flexible, and trustworthy device.
Tamps@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 271d
I've got a Meta Quest 3. It's a great bit of hardware but the Meta ecosystem makes me actively not want to use it, eventhough a portion of my games are streamed via Steam VR.
So if the Steam Frame is comparable spec wise, I'll happily sell my Quest 3 to fund this purchase.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 275d
Burn1ngBull3t@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 276d
For me, it was the biggest announcement from that and probably the reason i might invest in the Steam Frame.
That way I support Valve (or more like “i agree with that so here is my money) going the way of ARM support for Linux, the same way I bought the Steam Deck to “support” Proton translation layers.
123@programming.dev · 1 pts · 274d
Its nice when "supporting" happens to align with better/more options in the future.
yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 276d
Might get one later 2026 but the Steam Machine will be on release day
yuri@pawb.social · 8 pts · 276d
i built a new desktop AND preordered a bigscreen beyond 2e this year. i’ve never been so simultaneously excited and upset lmao
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 275d
Interesting, I thought Vulcan was deprecated for ROCM
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 275d
Vulkan is to DirectX12 as ROCm is to CUDA.
They're for different things.
The deprecated thing was AMDGPU-Pro, a closed source implementation of Vulkan - the Vulkan driver they use is RADv
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
Thank you for this explanation
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · -1 pts · 275d
It would've been an instant buy if it had nice color passthrough and oled