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The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set To Land In Linux 6.8 - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Since Linux 6.1 when the very initial Rust infrastructure was added to the Linux kernel there's been a lot of other plumbing and house keeping merged since for enabling kernel drivers to be written in the Rust programming language.

With the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, the first Rust network driver is set to be introduced.

Merged this week to net-next.git ahead of Linux 6.8 is landing the "net-phy-rust" branch.

That work culminates with adding a Rust version of the Asix PHY driver.

The existing ax88796b C driver code was rewritten in the Rust programming language.

The AX88796B driver is used for supporting the Asix Electronics PHY found within the X-Surf 100 AX88796B package.

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