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Comment by m463

7 hours 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 hour 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 hour 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.