Booting to Rust

Re:Booting to Rust by aray on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:10AM (#6759705)

Nice writeup! It's interesting to see the similarities between Booting to Rust and booting Go on baremetal.

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Re:Booting to Rust by dbaupp on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:13AM (#6759710)

You can't say something interesting like that without a link to a Go example for the rest of us to see the similarities too. :)

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Re:Booting to Rust by _mhr_ on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:18AM (#6760626)

Well, there's this: http://code.google.com/p/gofy/

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Re:Booting to Rust by adsche on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:59AM (#6760826)

I was interested in this as well and found this commit[1] by Russ Cox. README has details on running it inside bochs.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=ffbf0900a2

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Re:Booting to Rust by aray on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:39PM (#6763823)

Other commenters beat me to the first two examples, though there's more.

GoFY (which hilariously I'm a contributor on) was probably the closest analogy; it booted on x86. Russ Cox's did as well, but it was removed from the go tree years ago when it bitrotted.

Really it boils down to 1) custom linker scripts/targets and 2) a custom "OS" target that emulates syscalls/etc

I've done it a couple times (on ARM-based embedded devices), I end up throwing it out every time. Should get a proper writeup I suppose.

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Re:Booting to Rust by dbaupp on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @05:38PM (#6765016)

Hm, those two seem vastly more complicated, with extra C and ASM rather than just plain Go.

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