Rust In the Linux Kernel [Jim's Blog]

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====== Rust In the Linux Kernel ======

<wrap lo>Saturday September 10, 2022</wrap>

**Update**: It looks like Rust [[https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-60-features|won’t make it for 6.0]]. Hopefully we’ll still see it fairly soon!

**2nd Update**: Initial Rust support is now targeted for 6.1. The first merge into the mainline code was [[https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Is-Merged-Linux-6.1|completed on October 3rd]].

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[[https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Path-LPC2020|Back in July 2020]], upstream Linux developers started investigating a path for adding Rust code to the Linux kernel. That discussion was expanded upon during the Linux Plumbers Conference a month later.

Miguel Ojeda, the kernel developer primarily responsible for this effort, has [[https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-v8-For-Linux-Kernel|released multiple patch series]] for this support, with v8 of the initial 43.6k lines of code being added to the development branch in August 2022.

It’s looking like it [[https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-6-0-reveal/|might show up officially in Linux Kernel 6.0]], which as of September 4th is at release candidate 4.