[Bug 75345] [HD4600] DVI does not support dual-link

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Mon Feb 24 02:35:14 PST 2014


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75345

--- Comment #4 from Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Is it a lot of work to enable dual-link?  I'd be willing to have a go myself
> if it's something mere mortal programmers would have a chance of doing
> since, after all, the only reason I purchased this board was to get open
> source graphics drivers!

Yes. The hardware itself has never supported dual-link; so it would take quite
a bit of work to retrofit. ;-)

(Instead of adopting dual-link, Intel developed a higher bandwidth connector,
DisplayPort - unfortunately the world has been slow jumping on the bandwagon.)

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