On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 10:26:39PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote: > Multiple DRM Rust drivers (e.g. nova-core, nova-drm, Tyr, rvkms) are in > development, with at least Nova and (soon) Tyr already upstream. Having a > shared tree will ease and accelerate development, since all drivers can > consume new infrastructure in the same release cycle. > > This includes infrastructure shared with other subsystem trees (e.g. Rust > or driver-core). By consolidating in drm-rust, we avoid adding extra > burden to drm-misc maintainers, e.g. dealing with cross-tree topic > branches. > > The drm-misc tree is not a good fit for this stage of development, since > its documented scope is small drivers with occasional large series. > > Rust drivers in development upstream, however, regularly involve large > patch series, new infrastructure, and shared topic branches, which may > not align well with drm-misc at this stage. > > The drm-rust tree may not be a permanent solution. Once the core Rust, > DRM, and KMS infrastructure have stabilized, drivers and infrastructure > changes are expected to transition into drm-misc or standalone driver > trees respectively. Until then, drm-rust provides a dedicated place to > coordinate development without disrupting existing workflows too much. > > Cc: Alice Ryhl <alicer...@google.com> > Cc: David Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> > Cc: Simona Vetter <sim...@ffwll.ch> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mrip...@kernel.org> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acour...@nvidia.com> > Cc: Daniel Almeida <daniel.alme...@collabora.com> > Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <d...@kernel.org>
Applied to drm-rust-fixes. Thanks!
