Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by fractalb on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:09AM (#24338739)

What if those bigcorps don't merge some improvements for getting an edge over the competitors? And, what if every one of those bigcorps do the same? How would that impact the project in the future?

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by bluGill on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:00AM (#24341276)

They pay the costs of maintaining their fork. Thus there will be constant internal chatter of is the non-merged stuff really valuable enough considering the cost of maintenance. Sometimes yes, but sometimes no as well. So overall that is a long term win.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by zelly on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:30AM (#24339079)

Already the case for Apple LLVM which has optimizations for Apple Silicon not upstreamed and never will be upstreamed.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by nix23 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:05AM (#24339802)

I don't believe you.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D70779

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:07AM (#24340102)

And watchOS, its bitcode is more portable than regular LLVM bitcode.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by Joky on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:01AM (#24339218)

Source?

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