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		Unklejoe on June 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly... If the drivers are for PCI or USB devices, then they would have probably worked for those unsupported architectures "for free" if they were written in C.

nicoburns on June 23, 2022 [–]

By the time these kind of drivers are being written in Rust, the gcc support will be there anyway.

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