Re: [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux

Mark Brown
2021-07-09T17:07:23Z

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On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 8:51 PM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> > But if you didn't like the previous examples (nvme block driver, i2c
> > driver, gpio driver), how about looking at the drivers used by your
> > current desktop and picking something that you use today that actually
> > talks to hardware?

> With my GPIO maintainer hat on I'd say a GPIO driver would be quite
> interesting to look at. We are two GPIO maintainers and Bartosz is
> doing the heavy lifting for the moment so I'm connecting Bartosz to this
> discussion. (Now he has to read through the whole backlog,
> sorry Bart!)

SPI might also be interesting here and I think there's some SPI
controllers emulated in qemu, though no idea how well or specific
instructions for any boards. There's a bit more concurrency and so on
stuff going on in the framework.

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