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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago
I might give a shot on ASN.1 decoder rewrite in Rust. Might take a while. But it is in backlog :-) It is just a simple bytecode VM and callbacks to C code. I also think that it might be possible to implement it fully gccrs-compatible because it does pretty trivial stuff and no real I/O because it lives in a sandbox.

Also, here the cool part considering is really the ASN.1 compiler, which could take advantage of procedural macros to spit out snippet of that bytecode. Because it is part of kbuild shenanigans it could be enabled potentially earlier than actual Rust features in vmlinux.

Doing this might also be a way to find better guidelines on how to use Rust in kernel.

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