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Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1
In addition to working on NOVA as a Rust-based, GSP-focused NVIDIA open-source kernel graphics driver being developed as the eventual successor to the existing Nouveau DRM kernel driver, over in user-space Mesa developers have begun landing a portion of their Nouveau/NVK driver library code rewritten in Rust.
This isn't the first Rust code in Mesa in general though with Rusticl working out notably well for the modern Rust-based OpenCL driver. It will be interesting to see what more Rust code comes to Mesa in the near-term.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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