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		bonzini 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental You can absolutely write drivers with zero unsafe Rust. The bridge from Rust to C is where unsafe code lies.

weebull 5 days ago [–]

And hardware access. You absolutely can't write a hardware driver without unsafe.

bonzini 5 days ago | [–]

There are devices that do not have access to memory, and you can write a safe description of such a device's registers. The only thing that is inherently unsafe is building DMA descriptors.

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