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Are these the Rust-based drivers they've talked a ton about, or different ones?
by steveklabnik 3y ago
Are these the Rust-based drivers they've talked a ton about, or different ones?
- urschrei 3y agoThese are the Mesa drivers linked from the blog post: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/asahi/mesa https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/asahi/mesa, so not Rust AFAICS
- alexlarsson 3y agoThe rust part is in the Kernel
- dathinab 3y agoyes, rust-based drivers at the core but also a bunch of other things like it uses mesa and similar parts of the normal GPU support stack and also involved some kernel patches outside of the rust kernel module as far as I vaguely remember really a grate achievement where in the end rust was like a tool to make certain parts easier but all the hard parts are in the end unrelated to rust (like reverse engineering, coming up with solutions for the many issues of mapping GPU APIs Apple doesn't care much about to hardware mainly focused on on just Metal etc.)