Article 6TYGN [$] Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

[$] Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

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While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has beenanything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is closeto being achieved - for some types of drivers at least. Device driversneed to be able to set up memory areas for direct memory access (DMA)transfers, though; that means Rust drivers will need a set ofabstractions to interface with the kernel's DMA-mapping subsystem. Thoseabstractions have run into resistance that has the potential to blockprogress on the Rust-for-Linux project as a whole.
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