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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by tptacek on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:47PM (#27081229)
If you have a kernel implemented in Rust, (1) you should shout that from the rooftops and (2) use whatever isolation mechanism you like on it.
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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by bsder on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:00PM (#27081786)
They're starting with the bootloader and management engine. That's a tough enough ocean to boil.

Give them some time to get Rust above that.

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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by pjmlp on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:15AM (#27085325)
Sadly Apple decided for a safe dialect of C for similar purposes e.g. iBoot, where they could have gone with Swift or Rust instead.

Very big ocean indeed.

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