tl;dr Alyssa Rosenzweig. Amazing news, she’s been a driving force behind reverse engineered GPU driver project Panfrost as well as had part in the Apple M1 GPU driver. I was surprised to hear that she was leaving Collabora but it makes sense that she’d end up at Valve. Hoping for great things in the PC GPU space from her!
Have you guys seen her CV? The achievement/age ratio is stunning. All the best to her!
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Valve’s been a blessing to all of us, it’s really hard to overestimate the effect they had on Linux gaming as a whole
I am a bit surprised by this as her expertise really isn’t in optimizing AMD driver performance, which is what Valve has been mostly doing.
I suspect it might be related to the rumored Decard VR headset that supposedly includes some ARM components.
If she were to reverse engineer the Qualcom VR stuff this might even result in a open-source driver for the Meta Quest headsets, which would be fantastic.
More good news for steam deck owners. Can’t wait for v2!
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Are there any patents or anything stopping Valve from pulling a Switch and making both at the same time?
Hell, the deck is mostly there. It just needs a dock and the ability to remove the controller from the frame.
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The dock could be a more powerful eGPU, and depending on how cleverly it gets engineered (if it is even physically possible to do so), may have fans in it or something to cool the unit in docked mode & apply some sort of overclocks to the CPU.
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Hopefully this isn’t bad for Linux graphics drivers
Don’t see how it would be. Valve has already been improving the AMDGPU/RADV driver stack, and are doing work on things like HDR colorimetry that they want to upstream, for example.
