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		friendzis 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for ... IIUC the issue is not them being unable to implement 2.1 at all, but rather provide specifically open source implementation. They probably could provide a binary blob.

bobdvb 4 days ago [–]

That's probably how NVidia did it.

But there's very little software involved in HDMI, it's mostly hardware and a control API.

friendzis 3 days ago | [–]

Yes, this is exactly what the "proprietary" driver is doing

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