Comment on Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I always wondered why nobody just said “screw HDMI, this is open source and nobody can stop us” and did it anyways. I guess now my question is answered. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Hopefully there’s a path to getting this merged, otherwise I hope distros are willing to ship a modified kernel or DKMS patcher for it. A large chunk of Linux drivers are based on reverse engineering, why not HDMI 2.1 support.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Because the HDMI consortium has members that have an incentive to lock down the standard to enforce copyright. That’s how HDMI started to begin with. It was just a DVI-D signal with sound that was encrypted. That’s why you don’t see TVs with DisplayPort, though I’m going to tryand find one next time I buy one.