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The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware

110 pointsby todsacerdotitoday at 2:17 PM27 commentsview on HN

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davikrtoday at 2:44 PM

> 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

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tialaramextoday at 3:32 PM

> 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.

GZGavinZhaotoday at 3:38 PM

Can't wait to write a Rust driver for my eink tablet <3

AndrewDuckertoday at 2:43 PM

Interesting to see the building blocks come together. I hope that they can lay foundations that last.

Aldipowertoday at 2:59 PM

Tyr is a Danish metal band. Period. :-)

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