AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.

Everything is up for anyone who wants to install it, or to understand the changes and manually write the patches for mainline: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers Testing, feedback and PRs welcome.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
    53·
    21 hours ago

    upstream linux does accept AI “assisted” patches. if this gets properly mainlined, why wouldn’t it run Nura?

    • Libre Extremist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      15 hours ago

      Upstream Linux kernel doesn’t let people who don’t understand things to just submit. They have rules.

      • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Yeah, if changes are requested and you don’t know what the kernel maintainers want from you, you’ve lost.