Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)
artyom@piefed.social 1 day agoThree year old SoC
It’s marketed as a “streaming first” headset. It includes a 6e USB router in the box. The headset has WiFi 7.
Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)
artyom@piefed.social 1 day agoThree year old SoC
It’s marketed as a “streaming first” headset. It includes a 6e USB router in the box. The headset has WiFi 7.
fonix232@fedia.io 1 day ago
It's also being marketed as a standalone headset. Absolutely no excuse for using a 3yo SoC when much better options are available at not significantly different prices.
Also let's not forget this is Qualcomm we're talking about, the company that drops support for even their most popular chips after 3-4 years. Which in turn heavily limits any updates this SoC will receive. Even performance questions aside, using a SoC that is guaranteed to go unsupported within the first year of sales is just a bad idea.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
It’s likely because of valve needing Linux support. I’m surprised they even got Qualcomm to agree to give them drivers for that chip.
fonix232@fedia.io 15 hours ago
Drivers aren't the issue. Keeping them up to date is.
Most of these drivers are written for specific kernel versions (and are part of the BSP), but Qualcomm only keeps them updated for a given cycle. Which is usually 2-3 years (albeit Google's recent push has resulted in longer support cycles).
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
It’s not terribly important because steam can make their own drivers and update them but they have to usually have a working driver to start from or good documentation from Qualcomm. Patching bugs isn’t all that difficult even with binaries.