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Comment by sesm

10 months ago

> It seems like he wrote his Apple GPU driver in Rust and he needed Rust DMA support in the kernel.

Did he really NEED it? Why he couldn't use the C API?

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asadalt  10 months ago

that’s exactly my question. why can’t he depend on C API and just consider it is memory safe and all.

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