Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Device / Driver PCI / Platform Rust abstractions

[Janne Grunau]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:31:37PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This patch series implements the necessary Rust abstractions to implement
> device drivers in Rust.
> 
> This includes some basic generalizations for driver registration, handling of ID
> tables, MMIO operations and device resource handling.
> 
> Those generalizations are used to implement device driver support for two
> busses, the PCI and platfrom bus (with OF IDs) in order to provide some evidence
> that the generalizations work as intended.
> 
> The patch series also includes two patches adding two driver samples, one PCI
> driver and one platform driver.
> 
> The PCI bits are motivated by the Nova driver project [1], but are used by at
> least one more OOT driver (rnvme [2]).
> 
> The platform bits, besides adding some more evidence to the base abstractions,
> are required by a few more OOT drivers aiming at going upstream, i.e. rvkms [3],
> cpufreq-dt [4], asahi [5] and the i2c work from Fabien [6].

A rebase of the asahi driver onto this series still probes the platform
device and the driver works as expected.

Feel free to add
Tested-by: Janne Grunau <j@jannau>

We plan to import this series for the Asahi Linux downstream kernel
starting with v6.12 and replace the old rust-for-linux Device/Driver
abstractions with this.

Janne