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Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by vlovich123 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:19PM (#26814324)
Would svd2rust (or a project like it) be usable for that (assuming device manufacturers displayed some competency and emitted consumable descriptions of their HW APIs instead of reference manuals)?
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Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by steveklabnik on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:24PM (#26814356)
Those projects generate code with unsafe inside (and sometimes outside). They are very useful for getting safe interfaces, but don't help remove the concept of unsafe entirely.
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