The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
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by davikr
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> 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
by tialaramex
1 subcomments
> 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.
by not_your_vase
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What is not clear for me, is the purpose of this project. What I could find is that it wants to be a drop-in replacement of PanVK. But since PanVK exists, I fail to see the point. Is PanVK similar to xserver, that is not salvageable? Or is it just RiiR? That's also a fine reason, but I'd expect that more for personal hobby projects.
by GZGavinZhao
1 subcomments
Can't wait to write a Rust driver for my eink tablet <3
by AndrewDucker
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Interesting to see the building blocks come together. I hope that they can lay foundations that last.
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