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AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver proposal has been rejected by The HDMI Forum

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> The HDMI Forum, a nonprofit corporation, is comprised of members whose primary interests are to further the development of HDMI technology.

> AMD graphics card and Linux users are unable to leverage 4K@120Hz or 5K@240Hz via HDMI 2.1

> The issue initially arose back in 2021 when the forum decided to restrict public access

> AMD and the X.Org Foundation have worked with The HDMI Forum to try to come up with a solution — to no avail.

> AMD Linux engineers worked to develop an internal code and sought approval from the forum, which resulted in the rejection.

I think their non-profit status should be looked into...

You won't find much, this group is precisely what a 501(c)(6) is for and almost the entirety of the meager income comes from member dues.

Separate for profit entities rake in the billions of operating the HDMI licensing and are taxed accordingly.

Maybe AMD should just fork the spec, and freely license the result.

Nvidia and AMD already effectively forked the standard when they variable refresh rates. (Monitors supported it for amd or nvidia, but not both.)

You cannot fork something you do not own the rights to. You'll have as much luck forking Harry Potter as you will forking HDMI.

The question is what prevents someone from coming up with a digital video interface standard just happens to be 100% compatible with HDMI just with a sufficiently different label on the ports similar to "TF flash" instead of "microSD"?

Because all this shit is covered by patents and licensing, and a cutesy defense like "it's totally not HDMI, bro," would make the judge refer your counsel to disciplinary action because of how fucking frivolous it is.

I think it would just be easier and better to try and promote DisplayPort in the TV industry.

Would take about 10 years but would be worth it.

It would be better but definitely not easier as the TV industry is pretty much a subset of the HDMI Forum.

These fucking idiots should have "their" IP seized and relicenses in the public domain for creating and abusing a monopoly. Please drive their legal expenses through the roof doing it too.

Found an earlier discussion (235 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543291

News from February.

Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543291

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559318

https://archive.is/EG0xA

There's tons of "pirate" version of the pdf specification, especially on Annas. Hopefully this can help someone implement the driver.

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