While I understand the need to have HDCP on the HDMI enabled so that people can play videos from streaming services like Netflix and other sources, for people that use the Pine for general computing and other tasks which use either display devices that have no HDMI and require an adapter or have HDMI without HDCP, this is a showstopper and explains a lot of the troubles people seem to have to get their boards going. Most SBCs have implemented controls to enable/disable the HDCP on the HDMI by now and that should be a priority item for the Pine as well.
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