diff --git a/bin/emu b/bin/emu
index 88ea209..bf944eb 100755
--- a/bin/emu
+++ b/bin/emu
@@ -129,8 +129,15 @@ check_room() {
 # supported", then "Failed to find memory type for ColorBuffers", then the
 # emulator dies before adb ever sees it. GLES on the same driver is fine, and
 # is what the guest falls back to, so the only thing lost is Vulkan inside
-# the guest. Try dropping this whenever mesa moves: the failure is loud and
-# immediate, so it costs one boot to find out.
+# the guest. Try dropping this whenever mesa or the emulator package moves:
+# the failure is loud and immediate, so it costs one boot to find out.
+#
+# Retried 2026-09-08 on mesa 26.2.2 (was 26.1.7): identical fatal error, and
+# emulator 37.1.11 is still the newest offered, its libgfxstream_backend.so
+# still knowing only OpaqueFd/Metal/none as external-memory modes -- so there
+# is no mode to switch to and nothing to do here but wait. What the guest
+# does get, measured in it the same day: GLES on the host's real GPU through
+# virgl, reporting OpenGL ES 3.1 with compute shaders.
 GPU_HOST_FEATURES=${GPU_HOST_FEATURES:--feature -Vulkan}
 
 # An X server on this machine's GPU, started once and reused, or nothing.