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Native Linux is coming to our phones much more easily (Xiaomi Mi Max 2) (europe.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by sv1sjp@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] sv1sjp@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 1 day ago

Υes good luck finding solutions with closed source drivers by using only Search Engines and not at the end of the day...reverse engineering... I mean, technically feasible, but I cannot understand why we skip the HUGE AMOUNTS OF TIME that this kind of work needs to be done. And expertise.

The repository is here with an auto-installer script for anyone interested, the research is here for anyone to study and try to manually implement them to main-line. That's the beauty of open source.

All in all, The device is alive again, so I would need to consume less new electronic devices in the feature so I will protect more the planet with not needing a new phone/smallserver than some data centers that I do not control!

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