Re: Rust kernel policy

Miguel Ojeda
2025-02-22T12:10:51Z

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The reality of actual kernel development is that you almost never
> compile/run host-to-host, rendering that part of the documentation
> in the battlefield next to useless.
>
> Instead it should have instructions for BuildRoot, Yocto and
> perhaps NixOS (via podman). It should really explain this instead
> of dnf/apt-get etc.

We need to keep the package manager instructions -- there are
developers that use them, and we were explicitly told to add them. So
we cannot remove them.

And, anyway, that documentation is useful to know how to install the
toolchain in other systems/runners/... that use those
packages/containers/binaries.

As for projects like Buildroot, I think it would be ideal to get the
support (or the docs) into them, rather than in the kernel side (plus
I don't see them mentioned in Doc/).

Cheers,
Miguel