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>It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions. The HDMI Forum has long held up AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open-source Linux driver for not divulging HDMI IP that the forum doesn't want to make public. This lack of HDMI 2.1+ support in the AMDGPU driver has been a major pain point for Radeon Linux users and has led to experimental patch alternatives developed by the open-source community outside of AMD.

Archive: https://archive.today/t0z7f From the post: >>It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions. The HDMI Forum has long held up AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open-source Linux driver for not divulging HDMI IP that the forum doesn't want to make public. This lack of HDMI 2.1+ support in the AMDGPU driver has been a major pain point for Radeon Linux users and has led to experimental patch alternatives developed by the open-source community outside of AMD.
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Seriously, WTF?

AMD Linux engineers have spent months working with their legal team and evaluating all HDMI features to determine if/how they can be exposed in their open-source driver. AMD had code working internally and then the past few months were waiting on approval from the HDMI Forum... Sadly, the HDMI Forum has turned down AMD's request for open-source driver support.

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Yeah, greedy fucks want to charge licensing fees for the protocol.

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Worked out "great" for FireWire but that didn't have the market penetration. What they're doing here is a different kind of penetration though.