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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

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azkalam · 1791106771 · focus · HN ↗
I have AI fatigue, but the potentially for fixing bugs in old hardware is very exciting to me.
Perhaps we will even be able to reverse firmware blobs into open source alternatives?
1. IshKebab · 1791112017 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah AI is extremely good at reverse engineering compared to humans. It's one of those things were there's a huge amount of tedious but not super complex work. I think if you can set up a good harness for the agent it can probably write complete drivers.
  The most difficult part is likely that a lot of hardware is easily brickable if you do the wrong thing, so I'm not going to let it loose on e.g. my solar inverter.. even though their software is shit and I'd love to replace it. (Don't buy QCells.)

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