Re: [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux

Linus Walleij
2021-07-06T18:00:02Z

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:16 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 11:56 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > I.e. you have to compile some pieces of the kernel written in
> > Rust to even get to a working kernel.
>
> So this would break all architectures not yet supported by Rust?

I brought this up for discussion with Miguel et al and it turns out
the project to develop a GCC front-end for Rust is now well under
way and there is already a frankencompiler using LLVM first
and then feeding that into GCC IIUC.

I.e. support for m68k is on the way.

Yours,
Linus Walleij