A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel

Posted Oct 13, 2022 19:04 UTC (Thu) by xi0n (subscriber, #138144)
Parent article: A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel

> it involves one of those confidence-building "curl|bash" operations

If all that's needed is rustup, it should be possible to get it from your distro's package manager, through the usual `apt install rustup` or similar. Particular Rust toolchains, including 1.62 to build the Rust kernel modules, could then be installed from rust-lang.org using that distro-installed rustup.

A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel

Posted Oct 13, 2022 21:35 UTC (Thu) by sigma914 (subscriber, #98227) [Link]

This is exactly how most people I know install rustup, unless they're on Debian where the exact way they want it packaged is still under discussion.