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This was previously blocked from inclusion in SteamOS by the HDMI forum. It would help the Steam Machine to each 4K120Hz on HDMI.
by WithinReason 5mo ago
This was previously blocked from inclusion in SteamOS by the HDMI forum. It would help the Steam Machine to each 4K120Hz on HDMI.
- paol 5mo agoIt was blocked from inclusion in the AMD GPU drivers, it's nothing specific to Steam or the Steam Machine. The HDMI Forum apparently forbids any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1. Although I don't know if they ever offered an official justification, for a group that exists to promote HDMI adoption, they're clearly morons.
- Aissen 5mo agowere* As the article says, they most likely changed their mind, probably following quite a bit of background discussions and industry influence.
- account42 5mo agoIt's a group that exists to make sure that the standard works for all the members, including media companies that think they can control the flow of information. They don't need to promote HDMI adoption since their members already control pretty much all the TV production.
- saghm 5mo agoIt's still not clear why the standard wouldn't work by AMD having an open source implementation. I try to give the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, it's hard not to agree with the parent comment: whoever came up with this rule and the people who agreed with it are morons.
- expedition32 5mo agoIf memory serves HDMI includes DRM which they don't want people to reverse engineer.
- preisschild 5mo agoValve also contributes to the amdgpu driver
- mort96 5mo agoWait "forbids", present tense? How does that track with this announcement that it's coming to the open source AMDGPU?
- happyPersonR 5mo agoThis is actually a good question … wonder if it’s just api calls to a binary blob haha