Linaro reveal they're collaborating with Valve for the Steam Frame

Here's a small bit of news but an interesting one for the upcoming Steam Frame from Valve, as Linaro recently revealed they're supporting Valve with it. We don't yet have any better details on when the Steam Frame will release, just sometime this year.

In a short statement they said:

Linaro, the leading engineering organization driving innovation in the Arm® ecosystem, is pleased to announce its collaboration with Valve - the creators of the iconic Half-Life series and the digital distribution platform Steam.

Linaro has spent the last fifteen years bringing companies and the open-source community together in the Arm ecosystem to build and deploy innovative Linux-based technology. Linaro is proud to have supported the recently announced Steam Frame on open-source Linux development and looks forward to continuing to support Linux on Arm gaming devices in the future.

There's a whole lot going on behind the scenes on the bring-up for the Steam Frame, like how Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux. We also found out recently that Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton. On top of that we had the open source consultancy firm Igalia also announce their work towards both the Steam Frame and Steam Machine.