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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by ladyanita22 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:53AM (#46999712)
I think this is true. But that'd be nonetheless up to the subsystem maintainers.
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Re:The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware by ceteia on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:06AM (#46999790)
That means that, even if a C developer used or added C bindings to DRM when wanting to write a new driver, they would be forced to write their new driver in Rust regardless. That seems to run counter to the promises made by Linus.
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