Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust
Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust
Posted Sep 25, 2024 1:22 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust by pizza
Parent article: Committing to Rust in the kernel
istr that for many years Linux had a *maximum* version of gcc, which was positively ancient! If Linux can complain, at different times, that some gccs are too old, while other gccs are too new, then why can't it complain that some rustcs are too old, while others are too new? It is what it is. You just have to use whatever compiler that works.
At the end of the day, the version of the compiler is irrelevant. Seeing as most of the Rust code currently appears to be drivers, if the compiler is contemporaneous with the hardware or feature, what's the problem?
Cheers,
Wol