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HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected. (www.heise.de)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I do not really have a body for this. I was not aware that this is a thing and still feel like this is bs, but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum's decision that I am missing.

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You end with

The "fistful of different cables to keep track of" is only getting worse as we head into the USB4 era and it needs to be kicked in the head and replaced entirely.

But started with

need an entirely unrelated team to invent something entirely new to replace it

You want more cables?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I remember the original roll-out of USB, things like mice and keyboards very quickly transitioned to USB and came with one of those USB/PS2 dongles for awhile for compatibility with older computers, and then we were into the USB era.

    That hasn't happened with USB-C, large market segments don't seem interested in making it happen, it's not getting better, in fact it seems to be getting worse. So kick it in the head and start over from scratch.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I am very annoyed there aren't many (or any?) very compact adapters.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I have a couple. My phone came with an A female to C male adapter (will turn an A cable into a C cable) that's about as compact as you can make it, but it is only wired for 2.0. I also have a 4 inch dongle cable that does the exact same thing that is I think 3.0. I just bought some C-A adapters (turns a C cable into an A cable) which look like an A plug with the cable cut off. These aren't compliant with the USB-C spec and can be misused for bad ideas, like an A-A cable, but it does allow you to carry one USB C-C cable and one adapter and cover a lot of bases.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You want more cables?

    Yes, I absolutely want different cables with different connectors.

    Being able to physically plug two USB-C devices together is not a benefit if the devices can't actually talk to each other properly on the cable. I'd much rather have three different connectors, each of them guaranteeing protocol compatibility, than USB-C for which any given device-cable-device combination, the behavior is nearly impossible to predict.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The problem is that getting a new standard is gonna just mean more of the same shit with like a good ten years of swapping because USB is so widely used. USB ain't perfect, I dislike a lot of things about it, but starting from scratch isn't gonna improve things.

    If it was the sort of magical scenario where everyone swapped overnight, hell yeah.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    You know what the problem with USB-C is? In 2010 or so, you could have a fistful of unique USB cables, A-B, A-MiniB, A-MicroB, 3A-3B, 3A-Micro3B, A-Lightning, they're all different, but you can look at the cable and tell exactly what it does. Most of them are identical in capabilities but have physically different plugs, and the two USB 3 cables are also identical in capabilities but with different client side plugs. ALL of them will plug in and work in the same host-side port.

    With USB-C, I can have a fistful of visually similar cables, with drastically different capabilities, and I have no way of telling them apart. The USB consortium has been inconsistent with their branding, it has been applied even more inconsistently or even fraudulently by manufacturers, and there's no way to inspect the cable's features without trying it to see if it works.

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