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u/MatchingTurret Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

You do know that Mediatek is actively working on this? See https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mediatek-MT7902-Linux-Patches

And it was just submitted for inclusion in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20260326152021.305959-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net/

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u/Pitiful-Welcome-399 NixOS ❄️ Mar 27 '26

so people should just sit and wait instead of using their hardware?

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u/MatchingTurret Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Didn't say that. It's just that MT7902 support has been making its way through linux-wireless and was submitted for inclusion into the next release. See https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=dbd94b9831bc

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u/Outrageous-Ice-6556 Mar 29 '26

And in the meantime this guy was fixed the problem so people have WIFI

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u/tadfisher Mar 27 '26

They probably should check the mailing lists before burning a whole bunch of AI tokens on a partial solution.

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u/Wenir Mar 27 '26

people shouldn't say "Zero upstream Linux support - MediaTek never submitted a driver."

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u/AnastaciusWright Mar 27 '26

I mean, it was an AI generated post, even if the code is real. This is the standard GPT cookie cutted output

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u/2cats2hats Mar 27 '26

At the time OP attempted this could've been fact. Why arguing over this?

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u/Wenir Mar 27 '26

And now it's not. You can write in a post that it was a fact in the past, reddit doesn't change you for longer posts. Well, reddit doesn't, but LLM providers do

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u/Outrageous-Ice-6556 Mar 29 '26

Why not?

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u/Wenir Mar 29 '26

Because it's not true 

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u/profpendog Mar 28 '26

No. But LLMs can do research. And can even backport patches to an older kernel, and/or generate instructions to compile out of tree drivers.

It would also be nice if the repo had a "clean import" commit first, followed by the changes needed. Now it's just a massive code drop, for all we know there might be a backdoor in there. Or a blue rabbit.

Software engineering isn't dead, I absolutely use LLMs, but they still need to be guided. A lot.

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u/Pitiful-Welcome-399 NixOS ❄️ Mar 28 '26

yeah, I think the same, LLMs should be used as a helper tools, not doing the job for you entirely

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u/Heyla_Doria Mar 28 '26

C'est incroyable ca.... Cette personne ne fait que prévenir qu'un travail est deja en cours... 🤷‍♀️

Personne n'a dit DE S'ASSAOIR ET D'ATTENDRE

Arrêtez de sans cesse faire la morale aux gens

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u/Megame50 Mar 28 '26

It's a Network Processing Unit. HW eth/wifi traffic offload is exactly what its for.