The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware

Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by rjsw on Thursday February 12, 2026 @10:58AM (#46990398)

Means that other platforms need to allow Rust in the kernel too in order to use future drivers.

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by saidinesh5 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:21PM (#46991704)

What do you mean other platforms?

Also they can just expose c bindings to these rust libraries no?

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by rjsw on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:27PM (#46991831)

The old drivers are mostly dual GPL or MIT licenced, they have been used in all the BSD variants.

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by fowl2 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:05PM (#46997619)

Windows already does, so you’re talking about the BSDs or Darwin?

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by ladyanita22 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:54AM (#46999717)

BSDs and other Open Source OSes that rely on Linux drivers.

Windows probably has not many (or any) drivers ported from Linux.

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by anthk on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:16AM (#47000259)

Please, stop pluralizing "BSD's", every BSD it's different and OpenBSD only reuses Linux drivers for KMS/DRM; FreeBSD has special layers and tons of drivers ported and NetBSD it's closer to philosophy in design.

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by ladyanita22 on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:03AM (#47002823)

I will pluralize as all of them port some drivers from Linux

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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by anthk on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:06PM (#47004998)

So GNU/Linux now it's in the same group as FreeBSD as it has ZFS? Because neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD have it.

OpenBSD doesn't 'rely' on Linux drivers, thanks. Just a shim against KMS/DRM, everything else it's either homegroup or sometimes adapted (back and forth) from NetBSD but OFC patched for correctness and security. There's no ALSA. Pulse it's totally optional. There's no wpa_supplicant except for Eduroam or simlar niche crap under OpenBSD.

OpenBSD has OSS and sndiod. There's Xenocara, an X11 fork. Again, not Linux, X11, MESA and Gallium are damn generic. Show me the rest of ported Linux drivers into OpenBSD, please.

Are you sure OpenBSD is that dependant GNU/Linux?

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