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The initial work is just scaffolding that allows using Rust for some drivers, and projects intended to test said scaffolding. (Basically, rewrites of some drive
by Tuna-Fish 4y ago
The initial work is just scaffolding that allows using Rust for some drivers, and projects intended to test said scaffolding. (Basically, rewrites of some drivers that are already in the kernel but that are not considered to be of the greatest of quality.)
It will take quite a while yet before something important is made in Rust, and this early work can be done in parallel with the GCC-Rust work.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoThere is talk of the Apple Silicon GPU driver being written in Rust, which I would say is non-trivial!
- Tuna-Fish 4y agoWow, I hadn't heard that. But ofc this doesn't limit platforms because the hardware is only available on ARM64.