Gert Wollny Pushing LLM Slop Into Linux Kernel

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2026,
updated Jun 12, 2026

• Video Cardz ☛ AI finally does something useful: helping keep old Radeon drivers alive

  The patches were submitted by Gert Wollny, one of the few developers still working on the R600g driver. The update focuses on refactoring shader compiler code and other cleanup work. This is not a new feature update for modern Radeon GPUs, but maintenance work for legacy hardware that still depends on Mesa.

• Tom's Hardware ☛ Linux developers are using AI vibe coding to keep vintage AMD GPUs alive — R600 driver cleaned up with GitHub Copilot gives HD 2000 to HD 6000 series a new lease of life

  Specifically, the R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits by Gert Wollny, all aimed at cleaning up shader compiler code in the driver. The refactoring process was done with Copilot, with notes in each commit citing Copilot in auto mode being used to help build the code.

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• Vibe Coding Is Keeping Old AMD Graphics Cards Alive on Linux

  One of the few fans still working on these old drivers is Gert Wollny, who made close to 60 commits to the Mesa drivers on GitHub over the past week, with a little help from an increasingly expensive coding partner, Copilot.

• You may hate the idea of AI coding, but it could keep your old AMD GPU alive if you run Linux

  This fact was clearly highlighted, with Wollny stating: "This series does a lot of refactoring to make the sfn shader compiler code a bit cleaner. The refactoring was done with the help of Copilot (auto mode)."

• Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking

  In the midst of the RAMpocalypse and the billions of dollars being thrown at AI, it's easy to become blind to the fact that the use of machine learning can be highly beneficial in lots of different scenarios. Case in point: an update to an old AMD GPU Linux driver was created with the help of Microsoft's Copilot.

  As reported by Phoronix, the driver is R600 Gallium3D, an open-source package for Mesa, that's exclusively for AMD's Terascale architecture GPUs. These first appeared in 2007, with the Radeon HD 2000-series, before bowing out with the HD 6000-series three years later (though a variety of rebadged chips continued to appear in later Radeon models).

  Since AMD no longer offers any kind of official support or updates for this driver set, it's down to the coding community to keep these alive, and Gert Wolny seems to be one of the very few coders working on the R600 drivers these days. Since it's obviously not a full-time, paid job, you'd naturally expect anyone in this situation to be getting help from any source available.

• How AI and Linux devs are keeping old AMD Radeon cards alive

  The R600 driver is the backbone of AMD’s Radeon HD 2000 through to HD 6000 series. Ancient by modern standards, but a dedicated community of Linux users still rely on it. Keeping drivers from nearly two decades ago is a tough ask — it needs tedious, repetitive code cleanup that nobody really has the time or desire to do.

• Linux developers are using GitHub Copilot and AI vibe coding to keep 20-year-old AMD Radeon HD 2000 to 6000 GPUs alive [Ed: Linux composed of plagiarised slop from Microsoft/NSA]

  Linux Mesa developer Gert Wollny used GitHub Copilot to help refactor the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver, improving shader compiler code for Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 GPUs that are long past official support. The work highlights how AI-assisted coding, under human review and open-source accountability rules, is becoming a practical tool for maintaining legacy hardware and software projects.