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I am referring to userspace / userland drivers. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/driver-api/uio-howto.html#writing-a-driver-in-userspace https://www.kerne
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
I am referring to userspace / userland drivers.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/driver-api/uio-howto.html#writing-a-driver-in-userspace https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/driver-api/uio-howto.h...
- tremon 3y agoBut you can write userspace drivers in any language, as long as that language has basic file I/O and mmap() support. There's nothing special about using Rust for userspace drivers.
- TylerE 3y agoIsn't this false? Don't certain languages basically need, say, a libc that isn't nessesarily available in kernel space?