{"id":239816,"date":"2026-05-05T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:45:09","slug":"expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded HDMI 2.1, Coming Soon To An AMD Powered Linux Box Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/\">Expanded HDMI 2.1, Coming Soon To An AMD Powered Linux Box Near You<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/\">https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 15:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"pcper.com\">pcper.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Open Sourcing HDMI 2.1 Is An Open Sore For The HDMI Forum<\/h2>\n<p>Nvidia has historically been better at maintaining their open source driver, a perfect example being that it properly supports HDMI 2.1 on Linux with no extra fuss.\u00a0 Unfortunately that is not true of AMD\u2019s open source driver, but that may well change soon.\u00a0 The HDMI Forum previously rejected a Linux driver for AMD + Mesa that added HDMI 2.1 support as it needed to be added to the driver as opposed to NVIDIA who have the logic inside their firmware.\u00a0 This led to most Linux users preferring DisplayPort, but there are times when HDMI is the best answer.<\/p>\n<p>We now have good news, a submitted patch to the open source AMD display driver includes notes such as adding \u201cHDMI FRL support to the amdgpu display driver\u201d and that Display Stream Compression \u201cis still being tested and will be sent out later\u201d.\u00a0 It won\u2019t be added immediately, but keep your eyes peeled for a new AMD driver with improved HDMI 2.1 support later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanded HDMI 2.1, Coming Soon To An AMD Powered Linux Box Near You https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/05\/expanded-hdmi-2-1-coming-soon-to-an-amd-powered-linux-box-near-you\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pcper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hdmi-forum.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-239816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239818,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239816\/revisions\/239818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}