Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 week agoAnd they’re allowed to. But this is not that.
…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.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I can think of a money reason to block open source implementations…