AI is helping Linux bring 25-year-old 3dfx Voodoo3 graphics cards back to life
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In brief: Developers have recently started removing old devices and peripherals from the list of Linux-supported hardware, because AI is letting script kiddies discover too many bugs to make one-man maintenance tasks practical. However, the very same AI can also prove useful for letting ancient cards "talk" with the kernel even when hardware support is just not there.
A series of new patches is improving support for 3dfx Voodoo3 cards in Linux. Daniel Palmer, the developer behind the code contribution, designed an AI-assisted solution to let the open-source kernel initialize the video cards even on machines with no standard BIOS on the motherboard. The code would make Linux and Voodoo3 coexist on the Amigaand other non-PC machines, but Palmer is also working on 3D acceleration and Voodoo3 emulation through the QEMU virtualization...
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