- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.
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the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.
Assholes.
I’m glad more people are hearing how it’s this group of standards assholes who are causing it.
Laughs in displayport
I don’t know why the Steam Machine doesn’t have DisplayPort 2.0 (release June 2019)…
Probably because it’s designed to be attached to TVs, which use hdmi.
It has DP 1.4 though.
Ouch, tought it didn’t have DP at all. My bad
Greed.
Is it licensing fees? I bet it is.
Is it licensing fees? I bet it is.
From the article:
the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1. That means the open source AMD drivers used by SteamOS can’t fully implement certain features that are specific to the updated output standard.
