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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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Be a shame if it leaked on the internet.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm going to guess it would require kernel support, but certainly graphics card driver support. AMD and Intel not so difficult, just patch and recompile; NVIDIA's binary blob ha ha fat chance. Stick it in a repo somewhere outside of the zone of copyright control, add it to your package manager, boom, done.

I bet it's not even much code. A struct or two that map the contents of the 2.1 handshake, and an extension to a switch statement that says what to do if it comes down the wire.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

nvidia has HDMI 2.1 last I checked.

They can do it because their driver (even nvidia "open") is a proprietary blob

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

nouveau? Switch between drivers if you wanna use HDMI 2.1 or proprietary nvidia when you wanna game! It won't make any sense, but it will piss off the right people :D

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