Rust in QEMU Roadmap
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Rust in QEMU Roadmap
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Re: Rust in QEMU Roadmap
#2Thanks for posting this to HN! Author here, happy to answer any questions.
(By the way, I did not originally start the project, though I've worked quite a bit on the safe abstractions that are mentioned in the roadmap).
Re: Rust in QEMU Roadmap
#3Thanks for posting this to HN! Author here, happy to answer any questions. (By the way, I did not originally start the project, though I've worked quite a bit on the safe abstractions that are mentioned in the roadmap).
Bullish or bearish on rust in the kernel?
Re: Rust in QEMU Roadmap
#4Thanks for posting this to HN! Author here, happy to answer any questions. (By the way, I did not originally start the project, though I've worked quite a bit on the safe abstractions that are mentioned in the roadmap).
Bullish or bearish on rust in the kernel?
Hello! Small world. :)
For drivers, it's already happening, especially for graphics but not limited to that. 6.13 has some very important changes. A lot of Linux is drivers so that's already a reason to be bullish.
Answering for QEMU instead: it depends on the community being willing to share the burden of writing the FFI code. Despite Rust being low level, there is still a substantial amount of work to do. Replies to the roadmap pointed out tracepoints as an area where I know nothing and therefore I would like someone else to do the work (I am working mostly on the object and threading models, which is also where a lot of the impedance mismatch between Rust and C lies).
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just wait until you see the real conspiracy
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By "the Rust community" here, you mean the author of the mail, one of the biggest long-standing developers of QEMU since before Rust was a thing? You're complaining that the developers of QEMU themselves are interested in adopting Rust because they think it'll work well for them?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bullish or bearish on rust in the kernel?
Hello! Small world. :) For drivers, it's already happening, especially for graphics but not limited to that. 6.13 has some very important changes. A lot of Linux is drivers so that's already a reason to be bullish. Answering for QEMU instead: it depends on the community being willing to share the burden of writing the FFI code. Despite Rust being low level, there is still a substantial amount of work to do. Replies t…
Hello. I assume tracepoints mean kprobes/uprobes or something along those lines? I've just this weekend worked on implementing/adapting a crate for DTrace USDTs aka DTrace probes to also work on Linux and generate SystemTap SDTs (aka USDTs aka dtrace probes).
This is probably a little different from tracepoints in the kernel space but I'm somewhat interested in going deeper and into the kernel side of things. Let me know if you have any pointers as to where I might be of concrete assistance to you!