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From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:07:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] Samples: Rust examples
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 3:11 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> I've been talking with the developers here about doing a "real" driver

Would it be beneficial if the device h/w targeted by the "real" Rust
driver has QEMU emulation? Perhaps in addition to physical silicon.

If developers don't need access to physical hardware, they might be
more likely to get involved with Linux/Rust.

Also, I'm guessing QEMU allows us to embed the emulated device into a
variety of board architectures: x86_64, arm64, powerpc, etc. which
could be useful in smoking out architecture-specific Rust driver
issues.

Sven