LLMs port phone chip drivers toward mainline, with heavy review before anything merges

Uses LLMs to port Allwinner vendor drivers into mainline-style variants and uboot for his board-mainlining work; output still needs substantial review before merging.

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He uses LLMs to port vendor drivers into mainline-style variants and bootloader support for his board work
The output still needs substantial review before merging

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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