The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
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Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#2Interesting to see the building blocks come together. I hope that they can lay foundations that last.
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#3> Dave Airlie just announced in the Maintainers Summit that the DRM subsystem is only ""about a year away"" from disallowing new drivers written in C and requiring the use of Rust.
wow
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#4Tyr is a Danish metal band. Period. :-)
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#5Tyr is a Danish metal band. Period. :-)
I thought Tyr was the Norse god of War & Justice.
Considering that the Mali GPUs were developed by ARM Norway, and this driver is Just, I would say this is one aptly named driver.
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#6Tyr is a Danish metal band. Period. :-)
Faroese actually
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#7Tyr is a Danish metal band. Period. :-)
Technically they are from the Faroe Islands. Great band, seen them live many times.
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#8> Dave Airlie just announced in the Maintainers Summit that the DRM subsystem is only ""about a year away"" from disallowing new drivers written in C and requiring the use of Rust. wow
When the C absolutist maintainers fought for control over the ability to keep Rust out of their ballpark, I didn't expect the reverse to happen.
Still, I think it makes a lot of sense. Completely new GPU drivers are quite rare and the macOS drivers from Asahi are a showcase proving that Rust and GPU drivers work together well. If there's any subcomponent switching to Rust-first for new contributions, it makes sense for it to be the one that had already been proven to be Rust-compatible.
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#9> One simply cannot deploy a driver that [...] crashes and takes the user's work with it.
Somebody needs to tell whoever wrote the drivers in the PC where I'm writing this.
Re: The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
#10Can't wait to write a Rust driver for my eink tablet <3