Originally posted by Quackdoc
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As a company: Rust in the kernel, does is work? And the tooling? How much time will it take (more or less compared to a driver in C). How much does that uncertainty cost?
Writing a driver for an undocumented GPU: can it be reverse engineered? Up to what level (video decode, power management)? How much time will it take. How much does that uncertainty cost?
I think you will agree that if it takes 10 years to create a usable driver then it's likely a waste of time and money if the plan was to spend 1 - 2 years?
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