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| Welcome to a new issue of _"This Month in Rust OSDev"_. In these posts, we give a regular overview of notable changes in the Rust operating system development ecosystem. | ||
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| This series is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/). Feel free to open pull requests there with content you would like to see in the next issue. If you find some issues on this page, please report them by [creating an issue](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/issues/new) or using our <a href="#comment-form">_comment form_</a> at the bottom of this page. | ||
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| This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (November 2024)" post. | ||
| Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your | ||
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| Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the | ||
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| ## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts | ||
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| Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust. | ||
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| - [Title](https://example.com) | ||
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| - [VEKOS, a cryptographically verified hobby OS written in Rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h5vh2g/vekos_a_cryptographically_verified_hobby_os/) | ||
| - [Rust in Production: Oxide Computer Company with Steve Klabnik (Podcast Interview)](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gr9tqp/rust_in_production_oxide_computer_company_with/) | ||
| - [This Month in Redox - November 2024](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-241130/) | ||
| - [‘Tis the Season for COSMIC Alpha 4!](https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-4/) | ||
| - [a #![no_std], #![no_main], no-[#tokio] runtime for AWS Lambda](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h40cdd/a_no_std_no_main_notokio_runtime_for_aws_lambda/) | ||
| - [Ferrocene 24.11.0 released with medical qualification](https://public-docs.ferrocene.dev/main/release-notes/24.11.0.html) ([reddit discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h1261s/ferrocene_24110_update_medical_qualification_is/)) | ||
| - [Embive: A low-level sandboxing library for RISC-V bytecode](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gxm414/embive_a_lowlevel_sandboxing_library_for_riscv/) | ||
| - [Rust in QEMU roadmap](https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/) | ||
| - [kartoffels, a game where you implement a firmware for a potato, v0.6 released! 🥔](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gvrtnq/kartoffels_a_game_where_you_implement_a_firmware/) | ||
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| ## Infrastructure and Tooling | ||
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| In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development. | ||
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| - [mark some target features as 'forbidden' so they cannot be (un)set with `-Ctarget-feature`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129884) | ||
| - [show `abi_unsupported_vector_types` lint in future breakage reports](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/133374) | ||
| - [Stabilize `extended_varargs_abi_support`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/116161) | ||
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| ## `rust-osdev` Projects | ||
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| In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the [`rust-osdev`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/about) organization. | ||
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| <!-- | ||
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| ### [`repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/repo_name) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@maintainer_1](https://github.com/maintainer_1)</span> | ||
| The `repo_name` crate ...<<short introduction>>... | ||
| We merged the following changes this month: | ||
| <<changelog, either in list or text form>> | ||
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| ### [`x86_64`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp), [@josephlr](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/josephlr), and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span> | ||
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| The `x86_64` crate provides various abstractions for `x86_64` systems, including wrappers for CPU instructions, access to processor-specific registers, and abstraction types for architecture-specific structures such as page tables and descriptor tables. | ||
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| We merged the following PRs this month: | ||
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| - [fix field order for INVPCID descriptor](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/508) | ||
| - [fix CI job for building on MSRV](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/510) | ||
| - [gate HandlerFunc behind target_arch = "x86{_64}"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/507) | ||
| - [fix typo in "InvPicdCommand"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/509) | ||
| - [TryFrom implementation for ExceptionVector](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/506) | ||
| - [Typo fix in TaskStateSegment comment](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/504) | ||
| - [Minor clarification DescriptorTablePointer::limit comment](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/503) | ||
| - [fix signature of Step::steps_between implementations](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/513) | ||
| - [release 0.15.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/519) | ||
| - [backport #513](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/520) | ||
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| Thanks to [@mrjbom](https://github.com/mrjbom) for their contribution! | ||
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| ### [`acpi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods)</span> | ||
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| The `acpi` repository contains crates for parsing the ACPI tables – data structures that the firmware of modern computers use to relay information about the hardware to the OS. We merged the following changes this month: | ||
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| - [Implement the multiprocessor wakeup mechanism.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/225) | ||
| - [acpi-dumper: fix invocation of compile_error!](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/229) | ||
| - [aml: make resource descriptor fields public](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/228) | ||
| - [acpi: fix clippy warnings and run clippy in CI](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/230) | ||
| - [acpi: fix doc warnings and add missing links](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/231) | ||
| - [acpi: spcr: fix typo](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/232) | ||
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| Thanks to [@pjhades](https://github.com/pjhades), [@00xc](https://github.com/00xc), and [@Hsy-Intel](https://github.com/Hsy-Intel) for their contributions! | ||
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| ### [`bootloader`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span> | ||
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| The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following improvements: | ||
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| - [Remove 3dnow features from stage4 target](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/471) | ||
| - [mention E820 in docs for UnknownBios](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/461) | ||
| - [release v0.11.8](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/469) | ||
| - [copy more PML4 entries](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/466) | ||
| - [Convert LF to CRLF when writing to serial port](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/474) | ||
| - [Update x86_64](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/478) | ||
| - [release v0.11.9](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/479) | ||
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| Thanks to [@Ollrogge](https://github.com/Ollrogge), [@ChocolateLoverRaj](https://github.com/ChocolateLoverRaj), and [@Makonede](https://github.com/Makonede) for their contributions! | ||
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| ### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span> | ||
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| `uefi` makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, | ||
| and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality. | ||
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| We merged the following PRs this month: | ||
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| - [chore(config): migrate renovate config](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1456) | ||
| - [uefi: Deny clippy::ref_as_ptr](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1455) | ||
| - [Move the UnicodeCollation protocol definition to `uefi-raw` and use it from `uefi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1459) | ||
| - [Use ovmf-prebuilt](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1454) | ||
| - [xtask: Update OVMF prebuilts](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1463) | ||
| - [uefi-raw: Drop unused dependency on ptr_meta](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1465) | ||
| - [Fix `cargo xtask fmt --check`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1464) | ||
| - [Fix minor typo in protocols.md](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1467) | ||
| - [Add TCG protocols to `uefi-raw` and use them from `uefi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1469) | ||
| - [Mention to turn off secure boot.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1468) | ||
| - [Clean up some use of unsafe in MemoryMapRefMut](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1483) | ||
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| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1457) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.27.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1460) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1461) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.27.3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1471) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1475) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1479) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): update codecov/codecov-action action to v5](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1478) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1482) --> | ||
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| Thanks to [@diekmann](https://github.com/diekmann) for their contribution! | ||
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| ### [`ovmf-prebuilt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop) and [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span> | ||
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| The `ovmf-prebuilt` project provides pre-built [edk2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2) releases to make it easier to set up OVMF. We merged the following improvement this month: | ||
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| - [ovmf-prebuilt: Update readme](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/101) | ||
| - [release: 0.2.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/102) | ||
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| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/105) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/106) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/107) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/109) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/110) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/111) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/112) --> | ||
| <!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/113) --> | ||
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| ### [`uart_16550`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uart_16550) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span> | ||
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| The `uart_16550` crate provides basic support for serial port I/O for 16550-compatible UARTs. We merged the following change this month: | ||
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| - [feat(mmio): add `new_with_stride`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uart_16550/pull/36) | ||
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| Thanks to [@kouchekiniad](https://github.com/kouchekiniad) for their contribution! | ||
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| ## Other Projects | ||
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| In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly related to the `rust-osdev` organization. Feel free to [create a pull request](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) with the updates of your OS project for the next post. | ||
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| ### [`owner_name/repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/owner_name/repo_name) | ||
| <span class="maintainers">(Section written by [@your_github_name](https://github.com/your_github_name))</span> | ||
| ...<<your project updates>>... | ||
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| _No projects were proposed for this section this month._ | ||
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| ## Join Us? | ||
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| Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com). |