Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 23 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.today 7 points 22 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.works 4 points 17 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.

[-] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Huge!! Exciting to get HDMI 2.1 support on AMD. Will be super useful for my GPU and my future steam machine.

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