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Apr 7, 2023 at 01:27
TIL that the HDMI specification is not public, so it's hard to write OSS drivers:
HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers - Phoronix
It's been recently elaborated why the likes of FreeSync support over HDMI aren't coming to the open-source drivers, at least not yet..

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