[Libre-soc-dev] HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort on SBC (like Raspberry Pi) and on BMC

Frieder Paape frieder at paape.io
Mon Jan 25 18:01:46 GMT 2021


You can find lots of laptops these days which don't ship with hdmi
anymore, so I think it should definitely be considered to ditch this
closed firmware port in a libre project.

On 1/25/21 8:15 PM, Jacob Lifshay wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 11:12 Frieder Paape <frieder at paape.io> wrote:
>
>> Is it not possible to just use a DP to HDMI adapter if one wanted to use
>> HDMI? Of course that still does not solve the power concerns.
>>
> That's possible, but they are active adapters so they're expensive and they
> may not support all the features we'd like to keep such as
> high-resolutions, high refresh rates, variable refresh rates, high
> bit-depth, audio, etc.
>
> Jacob
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