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Ah... Well FreeBSD on the Apple M1 is highly unlikely, so this is going to be a non-issue in the near term. And none of the existing DRM drivers are likely to
by biorach 4y ago
Ah... Well FreeBSD on the Apple M1 is highly unlikely, so this is going to be a non-issue in the near term.
And none of the existing DRM drivers are likely to be rewritten in Rust.
In the medium term, maybe some in-kernel dependencies might end up getting rewritten in Rust, or maybe some brand-new architecture may have a greenfield development in Rust.
I'm going to speculate that FreeBSD on commodity graphics hardware is safe enough for a few years, but that longer term Rust compatibility might have to be added to the Linux KPI.
- sanxiyn 4y agoFreeBSD on Apple Silicon is in fact a work in progress: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon
- biorach 4y agoHot Damn! I wonder how they're planning on tackling the graphics driver. Maybe they'll be adding Rust support to that KPI layer sooner that I guessed.
- anthk 4y agoAlso, OpenBSD since 7.2 supports the m1 too.