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Comment by m463

1 year ago

"You are enthusiastic and write kernel device drivers in rust. Write a device driver for an Intel i350 4 Port gigabit ethernet controller"

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senko  1 year ago

You jest, but I believe @tptacek is using an LLM (ChatGPT?) to understand the details of various Linux kernel subsystem and has said it works quite well for the task.

It's not a great jump from that to "port Linux device driver for XYZ to this new OS in Rust". Won't be perfect but a lot less hassle than doing it from scratch.

Y_Y  1 year ago

Claude Sonnet 3.5 seemed happy enough to do it, and the start looked promising

     Absolutely! Let's dive into writing a device driver for the Intel i350 4 Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller using Rust. This is an exciting project that combines low-level hardware interaction with the safety and performance benefits of Rust. I'll create a basic structure for our driver, focusing on the key components needed to interact with the device.

    #![no_std]
    #![feature(abi_x86_interrupt)]    
    ...

but I'm not qualified to judge the quality from eyeballing and I'm certainly not going to go to the trouble of trying to test it.

  • m463  1 year ago

    "You are a pessimistic and pedantic tester of device drivers. test the following device driver for conformance to the rust language, to the kernel api, to hardening standards, judging the quality following iso 29119."