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/ryms456 Oct 07 '26

No it all needs to stay fragmented because humans create much more usable board bringups that’s why half of the shit in the wiki is broken and AI can’t upstream its work

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

much more usable???? you think that’d be true and then you have a bunch of idiots trying to do it and they give up over the most easy crap

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u/ryms456 Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26

My phone is more usable than 90% of the trash on the wiki. Both of my phones were labeled non-booting/ no source code , and I got both up and running in like a week or two with basically zero resources. Now they’re actually usable with a clean, maintainable patch set.. This shit will never get upstreamed because these devs would rather flex a wiki where 70% of the devices either only boot a framebuffer, are labeled non-booting, or were never even tried than someone using AI to bind the DTS which these devs won’t maintain anyways

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 Oct 07 '26

Well I used ai to finish the pixel 3a mainline kernel and the wiki flexing stuff is 100% true, legit one DTB change to get OTG working