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Rust in enterprise kernels

by bookstore-romeo on 10/24/24, 12:43 AM with 10 comments

  • by throwup238 on 10/24/24, 5:52 AM

    > There is an increasing market for cloud-based systems with GPU access so that we can all enjoy the benefits of large language models appearing uninvited in every aspect of our lives.

    I came for the Rust kernel drama, I stayed for the sick LLM burns.

    I love LWN. Like with HN the comments are far more interesting than the article. I'm a huge Rust fan that's been using it since 1.0 and it's adoption by the linux kernel is one of the most interesting social phenomena I've seen. The tug of war between stability/backporting and moving forward with Rust in the comments is fascinating.

  • by alilleybrinker on 10/24/24, 1:03 AM

    Greg KH's comment about not letting yourself be limited today by the needs of commercial users of old kernels is a good one [1]. That would be a tail wagging the dog situation, where newer APIs can't improve beyond the support that's available in old kernels. If that were the constraint, then improvements which rely on available toolchains would have to wait years for those toolchains to read wide enough distribution to users with slow adoption schedules for new kernels before you could even think of building on those toolchains.

    [1]: https://lwn.net/ml/all/2024092614-fossil-bagful-1d59@gregkh/

  • by justahuman74 on 10/24/24, 4:58 AM

    Until Nova is ready for merge it shouldn't get a say on how things get implemented

  • by rc00 on 10/24/24, 9:04 AM