Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt)

Why not (re-) try to do something like UDI (http://www.projectudi.org/) in Rust? I don't know much about driver development, but an abstract driver framework looks interesting: You write the framework (API) once, drivers once and two (or more) implementations (one for linux and one for Redox)... and can use the same driver on linux and Redox. Another pro: this would curcument the unstable linux driver API problem, con: overhead, a lot of work (more?).