Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@infosec.pub⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-Turnip-Vulkan

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

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mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- four@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Is this how we get Linux phones?
  
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  - bonusss@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That would be such a turn of events!
    
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  - hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No the drivers arnt available, fuck Qualcomm and ARM.
    
    Maybe RISC in time?
    
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  - IamSparticles@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Android is already a Linux OS.
    
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kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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
    
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Burn1ngBull3t@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 123@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Its nice when “supporting” happens to align with better/more options in the future.
  
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yuri@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
i built a new desktop AND preordered a bigscreen beyond 2e this year. i’ve never been so simultaneously excited and upset lmao

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yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Might get one later 2026 but the Steam Machine will be on release day

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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Interesting, I thought Vulcan was deprecated for ROCM

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- ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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
  
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  - IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thank you for this explanation
    
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communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It would’ve been an instant buy if it had nice color passthrough and oled

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