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The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)

I must've missed that from in the post. Do you have more information on that?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

One of the (now ex) maintainers by the name of Christoph Hellwig said that they don't want multiple languages in their area of the kernel because it becomes hard to maintain, and specifically called out the fact that it wasn't targeted at Rust - they would have rejected Assembly too. The Rust developer by the name of Hector (can't remember his last name) pushing the change took it as a personal attack, flipped his shit and quit after trying to attack Christoph and get him removed for describing the introduction of another language as being akin to a "cancer."

Then Linus came in, noticed that the change wasn't actually pushing any non-C code into the kernel and told the maintainer that it wasn't his area to block in the first place, and that he has no place telling others what to do outside of the kernel.

So we lost a kernel maintainer and a Rust developer over one issue.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (1 children)

You're not wrong, but that's not the part they quoted :)

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Ahh you're right, I misread and thought it was about the rust drama. I need more coffee.