Architecture support
Architecture support
Posted Sep 21, 2021 6:00 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566)In reply to: Architecture support by Wol
Parent article: The Rust for Linux project
I predict that the world won't suddenly end once it's in... and the ones complaining loudest will probably go on for some time as if it still wasn't.
Most old/exotic platforms aren't plug-and-play anyway; even if every new peripheral and PCIe card going forward had a pure-Rust driver it's unlikely to affect anyone on m68k, mips, alpha etc.
(The kernel's already got plenty of platform-limited compiler-dependent stuff anyway: LLVM LTO and GCC hardening plugins come to mind - those two are even mutually exclusive!)