Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
I understand your frustration and I share it and will try to do as much as reasonable to decrease amount of carried patches. Rust experiments do not and should not take over release and patch integration work. They are independent and effort for rust is minimal. Please put discussion about topics o

Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-22 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Le sam. 22 mars 2025, 03:20, Andrew Hamilton a écrit : > Hello, > > Personally, I really like this idea. > > I'm not yet a Rust programmer but I am happy to learn... and perhaps > there are others like me that would take this as an opportunity to > learn while doing something like porting a Grub

Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-22 Thread Didier Spaier via Grub-devel
On 22/03/2025 09:42, Maxim Fomin wrote: > On Friday, March 21st, 2025 at 8:51 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > >> Hello, I was playing with adding Rust embedded in GRUB. I’ve pushed results >> to 2 repos: >> Module goes to https://github.com/phcoder/grub-rust-hello/tree/master >> Ch

Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-22 Thread Maxim Fomin
On Friday, March 21st, 2025 at 8:51 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, I was playing with adding Rust embedded in GRUB. I’ve pushed results > to 2 repos: > Module goes to https://github.com/phcoder/grub-rust-hello/tree/master > Changes in GRUB are found at https://github.com/phco

Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-21 Thread Ross Philipson via Grub-devel
On 3/21/25 5:19 PM, Andrew Hamilton wrote: Hello, Personally, I really like this idea. I second that. One of the areas I think (I am not a Rust programmer) Rust could really help GRUB is in the many large and imposing parsing routines in modules. From what I have read and heard, Rust could i

Re: [RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-21 Thread Andrew Hamilton
Hello, Personally, I really like this idea. I'm not yet a Rust programmer but I am happy to learn... and perhaps there are others like me that would take this as an opportunity to learn while doing something like porting a Grub module from C to Rust if we had that framework in place. It seems li

[RFC] Rust in GRUB

2025-03-21 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, I was playing with adding Rust embedded in GRUB. I’ve pushed results to 2 repos: Module goes to https://github.com/phcoder/grub-rust-hello/tree/master Changes in GRUB are found at https://github.com/phcoder/GRUB/tree/rust Notes on implementation: Only i386-pc is implemented right now but it’