Governance

Posted Sep 5, 2024 16:21 UTC (Thu) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: Governance by jsakkine
Parent article: Whither the Apple AGX graphics driver?

> Rust-Linux is not GCC-compatible, and no kernel maintainer would purposely introduce a toolchain lock-in

So let me clarify, "a toolchain lock-in" was OK for some two decades — until the very same corporate actors stepped in and made kernel capable of being built with Clang — and now it's suddenly not OK?

Sorry, I don't buy this argument. Not at all.

Governance

Posted Sep 5, 2024 18:25 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]

Lols I posted this a day ago.

https://fosstodon.org/@airlied/113080989891431087

"the same folks that pushed backed against clang will be the same ones that complain there is only one rust compiler and we should wait for gcc-rs because only having one compiler is risky 🙂"