Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/970216/

The Rust programming language, it is hoped, will bring a new level of
safety to the Linux kernel. At the moment, though, there are still a
number of impediments to getting useful Rust code into the kernel. In the
Embedded Open Source Summit track of the Open
Source Summit North America, Fabien Parent provided an overview of his
work aimed at improving the infrastructure needed to write the device
drivers needed by embedded systems in Rust; there is still some work to be
done.