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Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support
The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.
Being queued over the weekend within the driver-core.git's driver-core-next branch overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman is the latest Rust patch series. The v7 patch series providing the device / driver / PCI platform Rust abstractions is set to be merged for Linux 6.14 if all goes well now that the code has reached driver-core-next. So barring any last minute objections that would see the patches being dropped from driver-core-next or rejected by Linus Torvalds, look for this Rust code enabling new PCI and platform drivers to be written in the Rust programming language to be added to the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel.
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