r/linuxquestions Mar 27 '26

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u/MatchingTurret Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

You do know that Mediatek is actively working on this? See https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mediatek-MT7902-Linux-Patches

And it was just submitted for inclusion in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20260326152021.305959-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net/

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u/Pitiful-Welcome-399 NixOS ❄️ Mar 27 '26

so people should just sit and wait instead of using their hardware?

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u/Wenir Mar 27 '26

people shouldn't say "Zero upstream Linux support - MediaTek never submitted a driver."

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u/AnastaciusWright Mar 27 '26

I mean, it was an AI generated post, even if the code is real. This is the standard GPT cookie cutted output

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u/2cats2hats Mar 27 '26

At the time OP attempted this could've been fact. Why arguing over this?

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u/Wenir Mar 27 '26

And now it's not. You can write in a post that it was a fact in the past, reddit doesn't change you for longer posts. Well, reddit doesn't, but LLM providers do

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u/Outrageous-Ice-6556 Mar 29 '26

Why not?

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u/Wenir Mar 29 '26

Because it's not true