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+# Persistent Vulkan overlay deployment — 2026-09-24
+
+Source commit: `4c043c99`.
+Installed native ARM64 version: `2026-09-24T181314Z-g4c043c99`.
+
+The user requested replacing raw uploads with a GPU texture and supplied the
+current Frame SSH target and key for native build/install verification. These
+are dated observations, not future device availability or permission to launch
+hardware checks.
+
+## Implementation
+
+The overlay now uses `SetOverlayTexture` with a persistent Vulkan RGBA8 image.
+The CPU panel rasterizer still produces the pixels. One staging allocation,
+image and command buffer are reused; redraws do not recreate them. SteamVR
+selects the physical device and required instance/device extensions. Transfers
+share one FrameYap-owned graphics queue with SteamVR, and GPU resources survive until
+`VR_Shutdown` completes. No desktop surface, swapchain or raw-upload fallback
+was introduced. See [rendering details](../overlay.md).
+
+## Verification
+
+- Default local offline build: 13/13 CTest checks passed.
+- Local native build: all 16 checks passed; the fake Wayland protocol check
+  required permission to bind its local test socket outside the sandbox.
+- Native ARM64 Release build on Frame from a checksum-verified Git archive:
+  16/16 hardware-free checks passed, including the Vulkan fake-driver test.
+- Explicit offscreen Vulkan check on the workstation's RTX 4090, with
+  `VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation` enabled: eight exact 1000×680 RGBA readbacks,
+  one stable image, no validation messages.
+- The same explicit offscreen check on Frame's `Turnip Adreno (TM) 750`:
+  eight exact 1000×680 RGBA readbacks and one stable image. This exercised the
+  actual image upload/layout/readback path, without OpenVR initialization.
+- Staged and installed native dependency resolution succeeded. Vulkan resolves
+  to the system loader; SDL/OpenVR resolve inside FrameYap's own `lib/`.
+- The native archive was checksum-verified and installed. `current` selects
+  the version above; `previous` retains `2026-09-24T174700Z-gc59c8b1`.
+  Installed `--version` matched and its executable hash matched the staged
+  binary. No app, SSH or user-session process was terminated.
+
+Native archive SHA-256:
+`d6f0173b25a879c02f0ee67063c881a23dff874a71674826ddd7666d0980759d`.
+Installed executable SHA-256:
+`761ea0e4d2dc235c5f056d8d944cb68392713c246aaec008d0b6c235954ef645`.
+
+## Acceptance boundary
+
+The updated headset installation is verified, but this session did not launch
+an OpenVR visual/controls probe or collect a wearer report. GPU readback does
+not establish SteamVR texture acceptance, orientation, click behavior or a
+flicker fix. No microphone, inference or text/Enter delivery was exercised.
+The next human headset check should compare both static action clicks and
+content-changing tabs using the installed Vulkan build's `--check-controls`.
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@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ were compared with kouseki's `openvr_session.cpp` and `vulkan_renderer.cpp` at
 `738569f4c41ff4c8fc9edd5bfff9c861957ea39e`; FrameYap owns this implementation.
 GPU setup/submission errors stop startup or the run with an explicit error.
 This replaces the raw-upload rendering path; headset flicker acceptance still
-requires an on-device comparison.
+requires an on-device comparison. The
+[Vulkan deployment record](evidence/vulkan-overlay-2026-09-24.md) documents the
+native installation and offscreen GPU checks separately from headset acceptance.
 
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