diff --git a/src/broadcom/compiler/nir_to_vir.c b/src/broadcom/compiler/nir_to_vir.c
index 750fe9f90f4..0a39445ca0b 100644
--- a/src/broadcom/compiler/nir_to_vir.c
+++ b/src/broadcom/compiler/nir_to_vir.c
@@ -3638,13 +3638,16 @@ ntq_emit_intrinsic(struct v3d_compile *c, nir_intrinsic_instr *instr)
                 ntq_emit_image_size(c, instr);
                 break;
 
-        /* FIXME: the Vulkan and SPIR-V specs specify that OpTerminate (which
+        /* The Vulkan and SPIR-V specs specify that OpTerminate (which
          * is intended to match the semantics of GLSL's discard) should
-         * terminate the invocation immediately. Our implementation doesn't
-         * do that. What we do is actually a demote by removing the invocations
-         * from the sample mask. Maybe we could be more strict and force an
-         * early termination by emitting a (maybe conditional) jump to the
-         * end section of the fragment shader for affected invocations.
+         * terminate the invocation immediately but our implementation
+         * doesn't do that. We could implement it by emitting a jump to
+         * the end of the shader, however, we have not observed any gains
+         * from this in real use cases, and doing that would require us to
+         * always emit additional instructions for terminates, so we discarded
+         * that approach. See
+         * https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38381
+         * for more details.
          */
         case nir_intrinsic_terminate:
                 c->emitted_discard = true;