Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X
by DiabloD3 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:52AM
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I'm not sure why this hit the front page of HN this way.
Thunderbolt does not implement MST chaining (because it conflicts with Thunderbolt chaining; someone out there is going to try to chain a Thunderbolt device into a Displayport device and wonder why Thunderbolt functionality doesn't work but the display part does, essentially. Apple doesn't want to deal with this shit.)
However, the last device in a Thunderbolt chain can be a standard non-MST Displayport monitor, this IS supported afaik.
Thunderbolt does not implement MST chaining (because it conflicts with Thunderbolt chaining; someone out there is going to try to chain a Thunderbolt device into a Displayport device and wonder why Thunderbolt functionality doesn't work but the display part does, essentially. Apple doesn't want to deal with this shit.)
However, the last device in a Thunderbolt chain can be a standard non-MST Displayport monitor, this IS supported afaik.