alt Hacker NewsHas Qualcomm seen the light after working with Valve on Steam Frame? The news that Steam Frame would be running an open source Adreno GPU driver really caught me by surprise.
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jeroenhd • today at 5:19 PM
They've been working on better mainline Linux support for a while now, but their last generation is still catching up on the driver side of things.
I hope they succeed but the last generation has only recently become mostly usable for specific distros. General support may take a while.
RobotToaster • today at 5:15 PM
It wouldn't surprise me if they're full of binary blobs
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My impression from the emulation folks is that the proprietary drivers are chock full of problems. I suspect it was open source drivers or nothing (i.e., back to an AMD x86 solution like the Steam Deck).
(And I don't think Qualcomm has seen the light - my understanding is that the Turnip drivers are purely reverse engineered.)