• Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel (Collabora)

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Thu Oct 22 06:40:09 2026
    The Collabora blog provides
    an update on Tyr, a driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

    One of our biggest challenges has been developing Tyr while the
    Rust kernel abstractions and driver interfaces are also being
    developed. As the driver interfaces are naturally revised and
    improved, we have rewritten Tyr several times to adapt to the
    larger Rust ecosystem. This not only makes progress much slower
    than it would be with a mature API, but also stalls progress for
    capabilities, such as job scheduling, while the abstraction is
    properly designed, reviewed, tested, and merged upstream.

    But working in this evolving environment is also precisely where
    Tyr is able to provide the most value. As a user of these new Rust
    abstractions, Tyr helps to expose their requirements and
    limitations.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1102024/
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