patch<\/a> adding the Device Tree for the Steam Frame:
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“Add an initial DeviceTree for the Valve “Steam Frame” codename Deckard. The Steam Frame is a virtual reality headset based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC (SM8650).
<\/p>\nProviding initial support for:
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– System reserved memory, regulators, gpio keys, PMIC functions..
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– PMIC ADC Channels
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– UFS Storage
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– USB Gadget
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– WCN7850 Wifi7 + Bluetooth
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– I2C + basic peripherals
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– SDCard slot
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The bootloader starts Linux in EL2, thus a bunch of EL1 & DSP related nodes needs to be removed and the reserved-memory mapping must be defined.”<\/p>\n
The most polished and full-featured support for the Steam Frame will continue to be found with the downstream SteamOS kernel builds, but nice to see mainline kernel support being upstreamed not far behind the launch that happened in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset. Upstreamed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,136261,136260,136258,136257,136264,136262,136259,136263,136256,136267,105,136265,136266,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-942300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-desktop-linux","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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