Re: [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux

Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08T20:34:35Z

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:49 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> 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!)
>
> This is not to say I promise we will merge it or so, but I just generically
> like new approaches to old problems so I like this whole thing
> overall, despite being critical to some details.
>
> I am also trying to learn Rust. Baby steps.

Thanks a lot for this offer Linus.

Do you have a particular one in mind? Ideally, it would be one that
has QEMU support or a test suite of some kind, or at least one that
you can easily test for us etc.

Cheers,
Miguel