Valve has signed a contract with a well-known open source Linux graphics driver developer, which is expected to prepare for the next generation of Steam Deck handset.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for lead delivery! CTOnews.com June 28 news, Valve earlier launched its own Steam Deck handheld, and began to make efforts in Linux-related games. According to foreign media phoronix reports, Valve recently hired Alyssa Rosenzweig, a well-known open source Linux graphics driver developer, to improve Linux graphics drivers and enhance the Linux gaming ecosystem, which is expected to prepare for the next generation Steam Deck handheld.

Valve has made huge improvements to Mesa 3D drivers over the past few years, and now Steam Deck is performing well, and RADV Vulkan drivers are quite mature, but they show no signs of relaxing, and they are still improving open source Linux graphics drivers, so Valve is currently recruiting a large number of related engineers.

Alyssa Rosenzweig has done a lot of work on Panfrost open source, reverse engineering Arm Mali graphics drivers for many years, and she has been working on Linux graphics at Collabora for the past four years. Since 2021, she has also been reverse engineering graphics for Apple M1 / M2 SoCs and working with the Asahi Linux team to develop AGX Gallium3D code for OpenGL on Linux using Apple Silicon.

However, in April, Alyssa Rosenzweig announced her resignation as a Panfrost driver maintainer and also left Collabora. Recently, Alyssa updated her resume, showing that she is now employed by Valve to handle the development of upstream graphics drivers, CTOnews.com believes that her name is likely to appear in the Steam client or in the acknowledgements of Valve's games in the future.