On 24/07/2024 15:27, Daniel Almeida wrote: > Hi Steven! > >> On 24 Jul 2024, at 10:54, Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> [1] Although I have to admit for a debugging feature like devcoredump >> there might well be pressure to implement this in C as well purely so >> that customer issues can be debugged… > > FYI: I picked devcoredump because it was self-contained enough that I > could make a proof-of-concept and get the discussion started. I think > that, at least from this point of view, it has been successful, even if we > decide against a partial Rust driver! :) Indeed, thanks for posting this! It's provoked a good discussion. > I was informed early on that delaying a debugging feature until the > abstractions were merged would be a problem. Don’t worry: I can rewrite > the kernel part in C, that would indeed be a very small patch. I'll leave that for you to decide. There's definitely nothing blocking a patch like this in C, but equally I'm not aware of anyone desperate for this support yet. Thanks, Steve
