NVIDIA Is Working Towards HDR Display Support For Linux, But The Desktop Isn't Ready

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Is Working Towards HDR Display Support For Linux, But The Desktop Isn't Ready

NVIDIA supports HDR displays on Windows and Android, but not currently under Linux for the infrastructure not being in place to support High Dynamic Range displays from the Linux desktop. NVIDIA though is looking at working towards ultimately supporting HDR displays on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-HDR-Linux-Lacking

[Ehvis]

Out of curiosity. Does any software on Windows actually support HDR? Especially consumer software like graphics/video editors or games?

[bug77]

Are there consumer HDR displays out there? I'm aware of any.

[SaucyJack]

I think they're due out this year actually.

[bibaheu]

Are there consumer HDR displays out there? I'm aware of any.

As far as I know only some TVs support HDR. There are professional monitors that are HDR compatible though.

[dungeon]

There are probably 8K HDRs if someone don't mind spending couple thousands

[bug77]

There are probably 8K HDRs if someone don't mind spending couple thousands

A couple thousand? A decent 4k monitor is over 1k, I don't think you can get 8k (even w/o HDR) that cheap.

[mlau]

Out of curiosity. Does any software on Windows actually support HDR? Especially consumer software like graphics/video editors or games?

Maybe video players and a few games. Andy Ritger said in his presentation that even on windows nvidia currently only supports HDR on fullscreen applications, games and video seem to fit this.

[dungeon]

A couple thousand? A decent 4k monitor is over 1k, I don't think you can get 8k (even w/o HDR) that cheap.

Decentity is not cheap as always, costs ThousandX

[microcode]

Should be easy enough to add FP16 buffers to Wayland w/ GBM. ;- )