""The latest alpha of the upcoming #Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for #Linux on #Wayland […]
It’s been a lot of personal blood, sweat and tears, paid for by #RedHat across the Linux graphics stack for the last few years to enable applications like Blender to add #HDR support. From #kernel work, like helping to get the HDR mode working on Intel laptops, and improving the Colorspace and HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA KMS properties, to creating a new library for EDID and DisplayID parsing, and helping with wiring things up in #vulkan.
I designed the active color management paradigm for Wayland compositors, figured out how to properly support HDR, created two wayland protocols to let clients and compositors communicate the necessary information for active color management, and created documentation around all things color in FOSS graphics. This would have also been impossible without @pq from Collabora and all the other people I can’t possibly list exhaustively. […] ""
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/blender-hdr-reference-white/ (written by @swick)