Radeon Graphics Driver should be rew ritten in Rust. 🦀 Upvote so that radeon software team sees this post

I would _highly_ recommend to look up driver and device programming before making bold claims.

Rust is not a silver bullet, and it will never be.

Writing a driver is already a huge task, but the driver only works with firmware.

Firmware which is closed source, even if it _would_ be open, it's still up to debate whether the quality could be really better - given that the necessary knowledge is high and thus the number of developers is small.

Additionally, the number of variables involved in a firmware vs driver vs device vs vendor specifics vs implementation specifics is insane.

So. No. Rust doesn't fix shit.

It _might_ improve the situation - but relearning everything for a language chain, writing a completely new tool chain to adapt to the language, education and documentation for the new tool chain, ... Is a huge task.

So even the improvement involves a huge cost with lil to no gain.

What would be required is a massive invest in NGO organizations, sponsoring recruitment / education and loan for full time developers.

That would help.

Many of the open source projects have a dire lack in fresh blood - to put it out more bluntly, they risk going extinct.

Fix that first as it is the number one reason for the sad state many projects have

@IntrusionCM He's trolling I'm pretty sure

@12bitfloat might be, but I'm bored, sitting on the sofa and watching TV.

So it sparks some joy writing stuff even if it is just answering to a troll. :)

Please stop troll and just upvote I beg you. Radeon graphics driver is so bad and it gets worse over time. Rewriting it in Rust is the only chance

Microsoft created the language P and rewrote the USB drivers in it ending a period of constant bugs.

But it was a massive job

Maybe they could use Javascript instead. /s

@Voxera

https://microsoft.com/en-us/...

Interesting read. Never heard of P before.

Though the article gives me migraine... Lot's of complicated words for a Sunday with no work.

Seems like they didn't rewrite UHCI -/ EHCI, only XHCI. Nevertheless an amazing feature, given the complexity of XHCI.

@IntrusionCM yes, I would not claim to really understand it but its supposed to allow for mathematically provable correct code.

Sound good but you probably need a few more university degrees first :P