Copilot fixes Surface Book 3 camera driver on Linux in two hours
marian_nmt · x · 2026-10-04
- The author's Surface Book 3 had no Linux camera driver for years; he asked Copilot to fix it, and two hours later the camera worked on Ubuntu.
- The result is an open-source repo surface-book3-camera: a signed driver port, software ISP, and on-demand PipeWire integration supporting the front OV5693 and rear OV8865 cameras, tested with Secure Boot on kernel 6.8.
- His takeaway: the only blocker to getting things done now is actually thinking of them, and he plans to contribute the work upstream.
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