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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 May 2023 21:13:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial Rust V4L2 support
To:     Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
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On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:17=E2=80=AFPM Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net> wro=
te:
>
> Unfortunately I don't think actually replacing the C implementations
> will be possible until Rust architecture support is on par with C, which
> probably means waiting until gccrs is ready...

There is also a second approach via `rustc_codegen_gcc`: Antoni (Cc'd)
showed in Kangrejos and LPC last year that it could compile the Rust
kernel code (with a few tweaks).

Cheers,
Miguel