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

[Cole Poirier]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:14 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:26 PM Frieder Paape <frieder at paape.io> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> that's probably because they have USB-C.  which we have to be very
> careful there not to introduce *another* batch of closed firmware.

Can you expand on this luke? I don't understand, I thought USB was an
open standard with non-proprietary firmware?

Cole