HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/hdmi-forum-kills-amds-open-source-linux-driver

by mfilion • 2 years ago

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gnabgib• 2 years ago

Quite a few discussions: [0] (385 points, 5 days ago, 231 comments), [1] (30 points, 4 days ago, 5 comments), [2] (289 points, 4 days ago, 160 comments)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543291 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553782 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559318

mfilion• 2 years ago

Oops sorry about that. The more the better I suppose!

paul_funyun• 2 years ago

Hopefully there are closed source solutions on Linux. Open source is a fine thing, but only when it works.

redeeman• 2 years ago

i think you're misundersatnding what it is that does not work here

Woshiwuja• 2 years ago

What? This is about HDMI being a licensed connector owned by the HDMI forum. You need to pay them a fee if you want the HDMI OUT or IN inside your electronics

mglz• 2 years ago

FFS, it seems like we need the EU again. Maybe a general law that all connectors must be accessible to third parties?

anotherhue• 2 years ago

IDK, maybe we can all just move on to thunderbolt and be done with it.

cassianoleal• 2 years ago

I don't see any TVs adopting Thunderbolt any time soon. For computer monitors, we already have DisplayPort which is fully supported by amdgpu. That would be a more likely candidate to have on TVs than Thunderbolt.

HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver

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