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DisplayLink / evdi

Extensible Virtual Display Interface
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Why binary-only driver? #428

Closed danielkrajnik closed 7 months ago

danielkrajnik commented 1 year ago

This surely isn't the right place to post this, but I couldn't find any other platform, so if you could please let us know why this hasn't been even addressed that would be really helpful - working with binary only driver is a nightmare for a lot of users. Are there are any reasons why DisplayLink won't open-source the driver and let community develop it?

I imagine that this would take extra effort, but also would increase sales as mentioned multiple times on the thread

cpontvieux-systra commented 7 months ago

It seems already Opensource (licence is MIT). But it’s not included in the main branch Linux kernel. This means it’s difficult to keep it in sync with any version of the kernel. Does a merge request have already been done for kernel inclusion ?