What's the point exactly? If you're running hardware that old, you'd probably want an older OS anyway. Not sure this kind of maintenance justifies the effort.
This driver also covers integrated GPUs in APUs like the A10-6800K, which came out in 2013. That's not ancient by most definitions. A lot of living room PCs still run on that kind of hardware and do it just fine for desktop use. Keeping the driver alive and out of Mesa's main development path is a reasonable trade-off.
Eh, not everyone using old hardware needs a full gaming rig. I ran a Radeon HD 5450 in a headless server for years just for local console access. The driver matters more than people think once you're actually dealing with those machines day to day.
This probably doesn't qualify as vibe coding at all. The developer involved is an experienced Mesa contributor, and just tagging Copilot in commit notes doesn't tell us how much of the actual logic came from AI. Vibe coding implies someone navigating code they don't really understand. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
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