From 677e3bd17b2c6afe7045faf2a1ac22b151dc873b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Oppermann Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 16:08:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Add draft for August issue --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/this-month/2025-08/index.md diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b35bc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ ++++ +title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: August 2025" +date = 2025-08-08 + +[extra] +month = "August 2025" +editors = ["phil-opp"] ++++ + +Welcome to a new issue of _"This Month in Rust OSDev"_. In these posts, we give a regular overview of notable changes in the Rust operating system development ecosystem. + + + +This series is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/). Feel free to open pull requests there with content you would like to see in the next issue. If you find some issues on this page, please report them by [creating an issue](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/issues/new) or using our _comment form_ at the bottom of this page. + + + +## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts + +Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust. + + + + +## Infrastructure and Tooling + +In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development. + + + + + +## `rust-osdev` Projects + +In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the [`rust-osdev`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/about) organization. + + + + + +## Other Projects + +In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly related to the `rust-osdev` organization. Feel free to [create a pull request](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) with the updates of your OS project for the next post. + + + + + + +## Join Us? + +Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com). From e8455349ed47bf0c4c5b30fe56ef90ec8535fce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Tate, Hongliang Tian" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:08:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Add Asterinas 0.16.0 announcement --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md index 0b35bc4..c3ce9f5 100644 --- a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Please follow this template: - (optional) Some additional context --> +- [Announcing Asterinas 0.16.0](https://asterinas.github.io/2025/08/04/announcing-asterinas-0.16.0.html) ## Infrastructure and Tooling From 2011df6249ef5ab470a157bd3e2e5f339520669e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Oppermann Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 11:00:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Add changelog for rust-osdev projects --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md index c3ce9f5..828b36f 100644 --- a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -64,6 +64,79 @@ In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted u --> +### [`acpi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi) +Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods) + +The `acpi` repository contains crates for parsing the ACPI tables – data structures that the firmware of modern computers use to relay information about the hardware to the OS. We merged the following changes this month: + +- [Rewrite `acpi` crate and entire AML interpreter](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/246) + + +### [`bootloader`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader) +Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13) + +The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following fix: + +- [fix target-c-int-width for 0.9.x](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/512) +- [release v0.11.11](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/510) + + +### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs) +Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611) + +`uefi` makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, +and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality. + +We merged the following PRs this month: + + +- [Use size_of/align_of from prelude](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1734) +- [Add (partial) safe protocol implementation for EFI_HII_DATABASE_PROTOCOL](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1719) +- [xtask: improved error output for "wrong" repr](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1742) +- [EFI Shell Interface: CurDir Functions](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1740) +- [uefi-raw: move types to net module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1747) +- [uefi-raw: various small net improvements](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1748) +- [uefi-raw: changelog update](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1751) + + + + + + + + + + + + +Thanks to [@seijikun](https://github.com/seijikun) and [@RenTrieu](https://github.com/RenTrieu) for their contributions! + + +### [`virtio-spec-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs) +Maintained by [@mkroening](https://github.com/mkroening) + +The `virtio-spec` crate provides definitions from the Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) specification. +This project aims to be unopinionated regarding actual VIRTIO drivers that are implemented on top of this crate. + +We merged the following PRs this month: + +- [fix(pci): capabilities are always little-endian](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/7) +- [fix(pci): actually convert MMIO access to little endian](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/8) +- [chore: release version 0.3.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/9) + +Thanks to [@Gelbpunkt](https://github.com/Gelbpunkt) for their contributions! + + +### [`x86_64`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64) +Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp), [@josephlr](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/josephlr), and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13) + +The `x86_64` crate provides various abstractions for `x86_64` systems, including wrappers for CPU instructions, access to processor-specific registers, and abstraction types for architecture-specific structures such as page tables and descriptor tables. + +We merged the following PRs this month: + +- [Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/563) +- [add PageFaultErrorCode::HLAT](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/564) + ## Other Projects From ac110b6a2679dac31ce4eb0efeacb1d913dbb72a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Oppermann Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:35:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Add blog posts etc --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md index 828b36f..4339675 100644 --- a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -32,7 +32,14 @@ Please follow this template: - (optional) Some additional context --> +- [This Month in Redox - August 2025](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250831/) - [Announcing Asterinas 0.16.0](https://asterinas.github.io/2025/08/04/announcing-asterinas-0.16.0.html) +- [minimal FAT32 file system driver written in #[no_std] rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1mrz2lu/i_just_published_a_minimal_fat32_file_system/) +- [Writing a Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines](https://seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-in-1000-lines) +- [Proka Kernel - A kernel for ProkaOS](https://github.com/RainSTR-Studio/proka-kernel) +- [Introducing Rusted Firmware-A (RF-A) - A Rust-Based reimagination of Trusted Firmware-A](https://www.trustedfirmware.org/blog/rf-a-blog) +- [nanomp3: A pure Rust `no_std` MP3 decoding library](https://github.com/robbie01/nanomp3) +- [Video: Intrusive Linked Lists for Fun and Profit (on embedded)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct10kgmcFmE) ## Infrastructure and Tooling @@ -45,6 +52,8 @@ In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other toolin - (optional) Some additional context --> +- [Make target pointer width in target json an integer](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144443) +- [Implement support for become and explicit tail call codegen for the LLVM backend](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144232) ## `rust-osdev` Projects From 9601fcc47c5926240e52ddd3cf1209a1646b7dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Oppermann Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:35:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Set publish date --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md index 4339675..3a6acde 100644 --- a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ +++ title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: August 2025" -date = 2025-08-08 +date = 2025-09-05 [extra] month = "August 2025" From e460232ab004a052c737c81279c5371b8e5237d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Oppermann Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:59:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Add updates for phil-opp/blog_os --- content/this-month/2025-08/index.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md index 3a6acde..dc5803a 100644 --- a/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md +++ b/content/this-month/2025-08/index.md @@ -163,6 +163,21 @@ In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly r +### [`phil-opp/blog_os`](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os) +(Section written by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)) + +We merged the following changes to the [_Writing an OS in Rust_](https://os.phil-opp.com/) blog this month: + +- [Update post texts to Rust 2024](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1432) (thanks to [thaliaarchi](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1432)) +- [fix edition2@post-11 Chinese translation error](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1428) (thanks to [ttttyy](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1428)) +- [Add post-12 simplified Chinese translation](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1429) (thanks to [ic3-w1ne](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1429)) +- [fix(post-01): typo](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1430) (thanks to [L3Sota](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1430)) +- [Set `test=true` to enable `main.rs` testing again](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1434) +- [Update testing post to set `test = true` in Cargo.to](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1435) +- [Fix: `target-pointer-width` field now expects an integer](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1436) +- [Update blog for `target-pointer-width` change](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1437) + + ## Join Us? Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com).