Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer.
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    it’s not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers

    Hey this is our monopoly! You can’t just come in here and use your brain to bypass our arbitrary rules!

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    13 hours 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.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 hours 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.