Add updates for rust-osdev projects

Author: phil-opp

content/this-month/2024-03/index.md

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+### [`acpi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods)</span>
+
+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:
+
+- [AML: Correctly invoke `_SEG`,`_BBN`, and `_ADR` methods for PCI region accesses, plus assorted bits](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/208)
+- [acpi: Add `SdtHeaderIterator` to get all headers.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/202)
+- [aml: add extra debug info on parsing error](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/207)
+- [AML: implement boolean field](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/211)
+
+Thanks to [@fslongjin](https://github.com/fslongjin) and [@rw-vanc](https://github.com/rw-vanc) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`x86_64`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64)
+<span class="maintainers">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)</span>
+
+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:
+
+- [miscellaneous improvements](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/464)
+- [release v0.15.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/463)
+- [doc: added help on update_flags to get flags](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/465)
+- [Feat: add constructor for `InterruptStackFrameValue`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/467)
+- [properly jump the address gap in CleanUp](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/469)
+- [expose DEBUG_STR more directly](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/471)
+- [add write_pcid_no_flush](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/472)
+- [release 0.15.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/473)
+- [Implement function for creating a gdt in a const environment](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/413)
+
+Thanks to [@uglyoldbob](https://github.com/uglyoldbob), [@GZTimeWalker](https://github.com/GZTimeWalker), and [@Sxmourai](https://github.com/Sxmourai) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`bootloader`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span>
+
+The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following improvements:
+
+- [Change gitter badge to zulip badge](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/431)
+- [avoid 32-bit relocation to `__BOOTLOADER_CONFIG`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/428)
+
+Thanks to [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@Freax13](https://github.com/Freax13) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`ucs2-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>
+
+- [Update Cargo.toml metadata](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs/pull/16)
+- [Add a short changelog](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs/pull/17)
+- [Add auto-release workflow](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs/pull/18)
+- [Set MSRV and add CI job to check it](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs/pull/19)
+- [Improve test coverage](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ucs2-rs/pull/20)
+
+
+### [`pic8259`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/pic8259)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span>
+
+The `pic_8259` crate provides abstractions for 8259 and 8259A Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PICs).
+
+We merged the following PR this month:
+
+- [Update x86_64 dependency to version 0.15.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/pic8259/pull/6)
+
+Thanks to [@iTitus](https://github.com/iTitus) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`ovmf-prebuilt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop)</span>
+
+The `ovmf-prebuilt` project provides pre-built [edk2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2) releases to make it easier to set up OVMF. We merged the following improvement this month:
+
+- [Transition to a workspace](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/39)
+- [Add empty ovmf-prebuilt package](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/45)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.4](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/46)
+
+
+### [`volatile`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/volatile)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span>
+
+The `volatile` crate provides a safe wrapper type for implementing volatile read and write operations. This is useful for accessing memory regions that have side-effects, such as memory-mapped hardware registers.
+
+We merged the following PRs this month:
+
+- [Implement some useful traits](https://github.com/rust-osdev/volatile/pull/41)
+- [Fix clippy warning about clone implementation](https://github.com/rust-osdev/volatile/pull/44)
+- [Fix build with `very_unstable` feature](https://github.com/rust-osdev/volatile/pull/45)
+- [Remove `Sized` requirement for `Send` and `Sync` on `VolatileRef`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/volatile/pull/42)
+
+Thanks to [@nspin](https://github.com/nspin) and [@kadiwa4](https://github.com/kadiwa4) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`linked-list-allocator`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@jamesmunns](https://github.com/jamesmunns)</span>
+
+The `linked-list-allocator` crate provides a basic `no_std` allocator that builds a linked list from freed memory blocks and thus needs no additional data structures. We merged the following PR this month:
+
+- [Remove stabilized feature](https://github.com/rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator/pull/81)
+
+
+### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>
+
+The `uefi-rs` crate provides safe and performant wrappers for [UEFI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface), the successor to the BIOS. We merged the following PRs this month:
+
+<!--
+- [chore(deps): update rust crate log to v0.4.21](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1087)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate syn to v2.0.52](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1088)
+- [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.19.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1090)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate tempfile to v3.10.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1089)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.79](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1095)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate anyhow to v1.0.81](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1094)
+- [chore(deps): update rust crate trybuild to v1.0.90](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1093)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate syn to v2.0.53](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1096)
+- [chore(deps): update cachix/install-nix-action action to v26](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1098)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate walkdir to v2.5.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1102)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate os_info to v3.8.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1101)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate nix to 0.28.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1100)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate regex to v1.10.4](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1106)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate os_info to v3.8.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1105)
+
+-->
+
+- [uefi: Derive Hash for all char and string types](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1086)
+- [uefi_raw: Add firmware_storage module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1085)
+- [Use auto-release from crates.io to release](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1068)
+- [uefi-services: Use "dep:" syntax](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1091)
+- [release: uefi-raw-0.5.1, uefi-0.27.0, uefi-services-0.24.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1092)
+- [Fix some new lints/warnings](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1103)
+
 
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