tsgates/rust.ko
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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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…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 -
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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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 -
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 -
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” -
…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 -
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