An experimental, community-developed Linux Driver for modern DisplayLink hardware has disappeared from public access following legal action by Synaptics. The project, called Vino, was an in-development kernel driver written in Rust.
According to a post on the Linux kernel mailing list, Synaptics sent the driver’s developer a cease-and-desist notice alleging that the project violated its patents. Correspondence related to the notice is available as attachments to the mailing-list thread.
The Vino repository is no longer publicly available on GitHub. The project had been intended to provide open-source support for newer DisplayLink hardware. Earlier USB 2-era DisplayLink devices had worked with Linux and had open-source driver support, but the future availability of an open-source driver for newer hardware is now uncertain.
Sources: Phoronix.