For a legacy structure like the Intel GDT that has grown over many decades, or for ease of hardware implementation like the RISC-V it makes sense. But for a purely software parsed structure like the HDMI EDID, why would you do this?
@th needless bitpinching in design leads to hours wasted in debugging the implementation, but the designers must feel really clever!
@th well, at least it's documented. (below is from the RF transceiver I'm working with)
@th Everything about HDMI makes more sense once you understand it as first a *restraint*, and only second as a means of moving images from point A to point B.
HDMI's mission is, "Under no circumstances display something unpermitted; all other considerations secondary; crew expendable."
The EDID thing probably falls out of that on the basis of: the kind of people who would willingly work on the design of such a system are terrible engineers, technically and ethically compromised.
@glassresistor @th HDCP actually predates HDMI since it was a party of DVI as well. But really HDCP is the purpose of HDMI, they are inseparable.
@th Hm..What's your complaint? I don't understand the problem. :D