AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard . Now, though, it seems that AMD is making real progress on adding full HDMI 2.1 compliance to its Linux amdgpu driver in the near future. In patch series notes for an amdgpu driver update posted on Friday (and noticed by Phoronix ), AMD's Harry Wentland says that the company is