Re: [PATCH 0/3] rust: arch/um: Rust support for UML

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Sat Dec 17 2022 - 07:08:16 EST


On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 5:44 AM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series adds support for building and running code in the Rust
> programming language under x86_64 UML kernels.

Thanks for all your work and support on getting KUnit/UML + Rust ready
(long before we landed in mainline!).

> This series is currently based on the uml/next branch: I'm happy to
> rebase it next year once we're past the 6.2 merge window (though it
> applies cleanly to torvalds/master at the moment). Equally, it
> should be possible to take these changes in via the rust tree instead,
> but since it's mostly UML Makefile changes, it probably makes more sense
> for it to go in via the uml tree.

Agreed.

> Also note that this series marks UML as a "maintained" architecture for
> Rust support. It's definitely my intention to keep this working, but if

That is great -- thanks for stepping up!

Cheers,
Miguel