alt Hacker News> 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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ceteia • yesterday at 10:14 PM
Weren't the old Linux kernel developers promised the opposite by Linus Torvalds? That they would be able to continue writing in C?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066
> The document claims no subsystem is forced to take Rust
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rjsw • yesterday at 3:58 PM
Means that other platforms need to allow Rust in the kernel too in order to use future drivers.
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hexo • yesterday at 4:28 PM
that is so ridiculous.
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.