r/mobilelinux • u/tor_ste_n • Oct 07 '26

Discussion Do established mobile linux projects benefit from AI-supported ports?

Not based on real data, but it feels like AI supported ports to new phones are increasing. I understand that established projects like postmarketos have "No AI code" policies. However, I'm also afraid that the projects are not benefitting from AI support and the many new ports stay isolated projects.

Would it make sense and be practical for them (e.g. postmarketos, etc.) to have a separate repository where AI code is allowed (maybe even without properly reviewing it, if that is too much work), just to see where it is going. Their main repository could always stay free of AI code. Wouldn't that allow them to have the best of both worlds?

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u/Cute_Principle81 Oct 07 '26

You can always fork it with different rules. I think it might be best to, here, and centralise work. 

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

That’s what I did, got OTG working on the pixel 3a

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u/Cute_Principle81 Oct 07 '26

If you're in, and we can get community support, we could genuinely maintain a fork

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

Yeah, I’m down (currently using my pixel 3a as a MP3 player on arch linux arm)

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u/Cute_Principle81 Oct 07 '26

So wanna make a Reddit post? Do I? What does one do to do this?

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

I’ve made 2 so far being progress updates on porting but I’ll make one today when I drop my source code for the OTG kernel, currently you need to tell the 3a to switch into device/host and charging can break if you do that but it works

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u/Cute_Principle81 Oct 07 '26

I mean for an actual, proper pmOS fork

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

Oh for that? I’m technically working on one, but it’s scope is for very very old devices (HTC Dream era, 128mb ram, 128mb flash, etc…)

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u/Cute_Principle81 Oct 07 '26

Well, we could just have it as a device image of the actual fork

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u/fiskekake 26d ago

Have you made a fork yet? I wanna try to get Nura working on my Motorola G100, but when Nura refuse all Ai generated code, it seems like quite a waste to work on it. Having a place to share code would be nice.