On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 03:32:40PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:31:37PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote: > > This patch series implements the necessary Rust abstractions to implement > > device drivers in Rust. > > > > This includes some basic generalizations for driver registration, handling of ID > > tables, MMIO operations and device resource handling. > > > > Those generalizations are used to implement device driver support for two > > busses, the PCI and platfrom bus (with OF IDs) in order to provide some evidence > > that the generalizations work as intended. > > > > The patch series also includes two patches adding two driver samples, one PCI > > driver and one platform driver. > > > > The PCI bits are motivated by the Nova driver project [1], but are used by at > > least one more OOT driver (rnvme [2]). > > > > The platform bits, besides adding some more evidence to the base abstractions, > > are required by a few more OOT drivers aiming at going upstream, i.e. rvkms [3], > > cpufreq-dt [4], asahi [5] and the i2c work from Fabien [6]. > > A rebase of the asahi driver onto this series still probes the platform > device and the driver works as expected. > > Feel free to add > Tested-by: Janne Grunau <j@jannau> > > We plan to import this series for the Asahi Linux downstream kernel > starting with v6.12 and replace the old rust-for-linux Device/Driver > abstractions with this. Great! I'll wait for the next respin of this as it seems there's been a lot of review already, and I've taken some of the patches already, so odds are after 6.13-rc1 is out the series can get a lot smaller. thanks, greg k-h
