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A minimal Linux kernel module written in rust.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2013-05-28 · latest 2021-07-06

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  1. …Rust in one way or another for kernel purposes, as early as... 2013 (!), e.g. from Taesoo Kim: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko/commit/58f0fb8fdf4063f5b24a09cbfeec81bf28a9d81b There were others: John Baublitz had a external kernel module…
    comment by ojeda · 2021-07-06 · in Linux Rust Support
  2. To add to this, I did some browsing and found this: https://GitHub.com/tsgates/rust.ko
    comment by mrlonglong · 2021-04-19 · in First steps with Rust
  3. https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko implements a simple module in Rust. When you can expose C bindings to your functions and don't need much runtime support, there aren't really many limitations to what you can do.
    comment by andrewaylett · 2018-03-08 · in Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform
  4. …seem very interesting. For Linux drivers, there was this exploratory project I saw a while back: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko (hasn't been touched in a while). So people are doing it and seem to be enjoying it.
    comment by bluejekyll · 2017-09-18 · in Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system
  5. …plain to see that it's possible and performs better in production since it avoids the JIT step. https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
    comment by dangisafascist · 2017-07-08 · in Linux tracing systems and how they fit together
  6. …did the research on building a Linux kernel module in Rust, though it seems like quite the hassle: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
    comment by kosinus · 2017-06-28 · in Increasing Rust’s Reach
  7. https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko#kernel-api-and-abi-stabil...
    comment by deno · 2017-05-21 · in TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability
  8. Rust: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko Haskell: https://wiki.haskell.org/Kernel_Modules And you can find a few others.
    comment by viraptor · 2017-03-28 · in It’s time for a memory safety intervention
  9. Upstream? Likely never. Out of tree? https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko/blob/master/README.md
    comment by viraptor · 2017-03-16 · in The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
  10. …has only printf implemented. So yeah it'd be a pretty intense project if one would attempt it :) 1] https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
    comment by tinco · 2016-06-29 · in WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
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    story by wrboyce · 2016-05-17 · 0 comments
  12. Here's a minimal Linux kernel module in Rust, by the way: https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
    comment by steveklabnik · 2013-06-03 · in Removing garbage collection from the Rust language
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    A minimal Linux kernel module written in Rust
    story by tsgates · 2013-05-28 · 0 comments