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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
	 ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 00:13:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZkWQ=dWieyRch7aFuLOJ+WB_he_Bb_A2z_zJw+BZrQJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiq72ntKzqBWFP-dTKAmsmwfshQa3fc+jm6m4mns4TdRgcCiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 10:34 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:49 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > With my GPIO maintainer hat on I'd say a GPIO driver would be quite
> > interesting to look at. We are two GPIO maintainers and Bartosz is
> > doing the heavy lifting for the moment so I'm connecting Bartosz to this
> > discussion. (Now he has to read through the whole backlog,
> > sorry Bart!)
> >
> > This is not to say I promise we will merge it or so, but I just generically
> > like new approaches to old problems so I like this whole thing
> > overall, despite being critical to some details.
> >
> > I am also trying to learn Rust. Baby steps.
>
> Thanks a lot for this offer Linus.
>
> Do you have a particular one in mind? Ideally, it would be one that
> has QEMU support or a test suite of some kind, or at least one that
> you can easily test for us etc.

I don't use QEMU for GPIO development, we are so close to the
real hardware that it's often not appropriate. We have a testing
module but that is not a real world driver and would not meet the
expectations set here of creating real hardware drivers.

I have seen that QEMU has a piece of code for the Arm PrimeCell
PL061 GPIO block which corresponds to drivers/gpio/gpio-pl061.c
Note that this hardware apart from being used in all Arm reference
designs is used on ARMv4T systems that are not supported by
LLVM but only GCC, which might complicate things.

I am a bit oldschool in that I think real hardware is awesome to test
on. GPIO drivers exist in many shapes and sizes, some are directly
memory-mapped to hardware registers, some are I2C or SPI.
Most Raspberry Pis and Beagle Boards have them, albeit the
on-chip GPIOs are often also pin controllers which complicates
things. Expanders on I2C and SPI will be simpler. Maybe look
for an I2C or SPI expander that has no existing kernel support and
implement it in Rust?

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-08 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 202+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-25 22:09 [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-05 23:51 ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06  4:30   ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-06  9:55     ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 10:16       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-06 17:59         ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 18:36           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 19:12             ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 21:32               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 14:10             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-07 15:28               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 15:50                 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-07-07 16:34                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 16:55                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-07 17:54                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 10:22       ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-06 14:30       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 14:32         ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 15:03         ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-06 15:33           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 15:42             ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-06 16:09               ` Mike Rapoport
2021-07-06 18:29               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 18:38                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-06 19:45                   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-07-06 19:59                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 18:53             ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-06 21:50               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07  4:57                 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-07 13:39                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2021-07-07 13:50                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 18:26         ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 19:11           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 19:13         ` Johannes Berg
2021-07-06 19:43           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 10:20     ` James Bottomley
2021-07-06 14:55       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 15:01         ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-06 15:36           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-09 10:02         ` Marco Elver
2021-07-09 16:02           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 18:09       ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 14:24     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06 14:33       ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-06 14:56       ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-06 15:29         ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07  4:38           ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-07-06 20:00   ` Roland Dreier
2021-07-06 20:36     ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-06 22:00       ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-07  7:27         ` Julia Lawall
2021-07-07  7:45           ` Greg KH
2021-07-07  7:52             ` James Bottomley
2021-07-07 13:49               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 14:08                 ` James Bottomley
2021-07-07 15:15                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 15:44                     ` Greg KH
2021-07-07 17:01                       ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-07 17:20                         ` Greg KH
2021-07-07 19:19                           ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-07 20:38                             ` Jan Kara
2021-07-07 23:09                               ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-08  6:11                                 ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 13:36                                   ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-08 18:51                                     ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 19:31                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-08 19:35                                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 21:56                                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-08 19:49                                       ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-08 20:34                                         ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08 22:13                                           ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2021-07-09  7:24                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-19 12:24                                             ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-19 13:15                                               ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-19 14:02                                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-19 14:13                                                   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-19 21:32                                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-19 21:33                                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-20  1:46                                                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-20  6:43                                                         ` Johannes Berg
2021-07-19 14:43                                                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-19 18:24                                                     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 18:47                                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-07-19 14:54                                                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 17:32                                                   ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-19 21:31                                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-19 17:37                                                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 16:02                                                 ` Vegard Nossum
2021-07-19 17:45                                                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 17:54                                                     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 18:06                                                   ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-19 19:37                                                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-19 21:09                                                       ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-20 23:54                                                         ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-21  1:33                                                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-21  1:42                                                             ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-21 13:54                                                               ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-21 14:13                                                                 ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-21 14:19                                                                   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-22 11:33                                                                     ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-23  0:45                                                                       ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-21  4:39                                                             ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-23  1:04                                                               ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-21  4:23                                                           ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-23  1:13                                                             ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-19 22:57                                                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2021-07-20  7:15                                                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-20  9:39                                                     ` Alexandre Belloni
2021-07-20 12:10                                                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 13:53                                               ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-19 14:42                                                 ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-19 22:16                                                   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-20  1:20                                                     ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-20 13:21                                                       ` Andrew Lunn
2021-07-20 13:38                                                         ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-20 14:04                                                           ` Andrew Lunn
2021-07-20 13:55                                                         ` Greg KH
2021-07-20  1:21                                                     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-20 16:00                                                       ` Mark Brown
2021-07-20 22:42                                                       ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-19 14:43                                                 ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-19 15:15                                                   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-07-19 15:43                                                     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-09  7:03                                         ` Viresh Kumar
2021-07-09 17:06                                         ` Mark Brown
2021-07-09 17:43                                           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-10  9:53                                             ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-10 20:09                                         ` Kees Cook
2021-07-08 13:55                                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08 14:58                                     ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 15:02                                       ` Mark Brown
2021-07-08 16:38                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-08 18:01                                         ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 18:00                                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08 18:44                                         ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 23:09                                           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08  7:20                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 13:41                                   ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-08 13:43                                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 13:54                                       ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-08 14:16                                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 14:24                                           ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-09  7:04                                             ` Jerome Glisse
2021-07-08 14:04                                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08 14:18                                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 14:28                                           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08 14:33                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 14:35                                               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-09 11:55                                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-08 16:07                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-07 20:58                           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 21:47                             ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-07 22:44                               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 17:01           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 10:50       ` Mark Brown
2021-07-07 10:56         ` Julia Lawall
2021-07-07 11:27           ` James Bottomley
2021-07-07 11:34         ` James Bottomley
2021-07-07 12:20           ` Greg KH
2021-07-07 12:38             ` James Bottomley
2021-07-07 12:45               ` Greg KH
2021-07-07 17:17                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-08  6:49                   ` cdev/devm_* issues (was Re: [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux) Greg KH
2021-07-08  8:23                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-08 23:06                     ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-09  0:02                       ` Dan Williams
2021-07-09 16:53                       ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-13  8:59                         ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]                           ` <CAHp75VfW7PxAyU=eYPNWFU_oUY=aStz-4W5gX87KSo402YhMXQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-21 13:46                             ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-21 15:49                               ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-10  7:09                     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-07-12 13:42                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-15  9:54                     ` Daniel Vetter
2021-07-21  9:08                       ` Dan Carpenter
2021-07-22  9:56                         ` Daniel Vetter
2021-07-22 10:09                           ` Dan Carpenter
2021-07-08  9:08                   ` [TECH TOPIC] Rust for Linux Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-07-10 16:42                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-10 17:18                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-07 15:17           ` Mark Brown
2021-07-06 21:45     ` Bart Van Assche
2021-07-06 23:08       ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-07-07  2:41         ` Bart Van Assche
2021-07-07 18:57           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-07 20:32             ` Bart Van Assche
2021-07-07 20:39               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-07 21:40                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-08  7:22                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-07 21:02               ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-07 22:11               ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 22:43                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-07 23:21                   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 23:40                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-08  0:27                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-08  0:56                         ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-07-08  6:26             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2021-07-06 19:05 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-07-06 19:27   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 15:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-07-07 16:44   ` Miguel Ojeda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-08-07 10:03 Miguel Ojeda
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