A Linux Kernel GPU Driver Written in Rust May Be Coming

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Original topic: 用Rust编写的Linux内核GPU驱动程序，或将到来

| username: 非凸科技

Foreign media Phoronix reported that Asahi Lina, the core developer of Asahi Linux, is exploring the feasibility of writing the DRM kernel GPU driver using the Rust programming language.

If successful, this will be the first Linux kernel GPU driver written in Rust.

Given that there is currently no actual driver code written in Rust, there are several possibilities for the Rust implementation of the driver:

  1. Fully implemented in Rust (involving the rendering part of the DRM subsystem);
  2. Most of the firmware interaction logic is completed in Rust, and then the top-level driver is written in C and calls the Rust abstraction layer.

Original text: Writing the Apple AGX GPU driver in Rust?