A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU

Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by shmerl on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:50PM (#38997556)

Upstream is the kernel itself and standard kernel interfaces. Nvidia doing their own (non upstream) thing is the main problem here. They didn't work with libdrm for years.

Being a client or even a partner doesn't guarantee good cooperation with Nvidia (Evga has a lot to comment on that). As long as Nvidia is not a good citizen in working with upstream Linux kernel, it's just not worth investing effort in using them for someone like Valve.

Stuff like HDR support or anything the like are major examples why it all matters.

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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by izacus on Monday January 15, 2024 @04:09AM (#38998764)

Yes, but none of that is important for a console. You're talking about integration into libraries of normal desktop distros which aren't that important when the console can just ship the compatible ones.

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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by shmerl on Monday January 15, 2024 @05:09AM (#38999125)

Valve disagree. And the fact that they made an updated version that supports HDR demonstrates that it's important.

Form factor (console or not) has no bearing on importance of this issue.

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