HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver (extremetech.com)

49 points by mfilion 2y ago ↗ HN

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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 2y ago ↗

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

[dead] fddrdplktrew 2y ago ↗

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saintfire 2y ago ↗

More accurately it is just the same evil corps colluding.

paul_funyun 2y ago ↗

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

redeeman 2y ago ↗

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

Woshiwuja 2y 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

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mglz 2y ago ↗

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

anotherhue 2y ago ↗

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

cassianoleal 2y 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.

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