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This Month in Rust OSDev: March 2024

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+title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: March 2024"
+date = 2024-04-10
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+[extra]
+month = "March 2024"
+editors = ["phil-opp"]
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+
+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.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+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 <a href="#comment-form">_comment form_</a> at the bottom of this page.
+
+<!--
+    This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (March 2024)" post.
+    Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your
+    content here.
+    Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the
+    general structure of these posts.
+-->
+
+## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts
+
+Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust.
+
+<!--
+Please follow this template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [An IRC client in your motherboard](https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/)
+- [octox: Writing a Unix-like OS in Rust](https://vmm.dev/en/rust/osinrust.md)
+- [This Month in Redox](https://redox-os.org/news/this-month-240330/)
+- [Redox Kernel Improvements](https://redox-os.org/news/kernel-10/)
+- [MOROS 0.10.3](https://github.com/vinc/moros/releases/tag/v0.10.3)
+- [The server chose violence: Hubris's oddest syscall](https://cliffle.com/blog/hubris-reply-fault/)
+- [Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions)
+- [A memory model for Rust code in the Linux kernel](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/967049/0ffb9b9ed8940013/)
+- [Embedded Rust Bluetooth on ESP: BLE Client](https://apollolabsblog.hashnode.dev/embedded-rust-bluetooth-on-esp-ble-client)
+- [EtherCrab 0.4: Distributed Clocks, `io_uring`, Derives, Oh My](https://wapl.es/ethercrab-0-4-io-uring-derives-ethercat-distributed-clocks/)
+- The Embedded Rustacean: [Issue 15](https://www.theembeddedrustacean.com/p/the-embedded-rustacean-issue-15) and [Issue 16](https://www.theembeddedrustacean.com/p/the-embedded-rustacean-issue-16)
+
+## Infrastructure and Tooling
+
+In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [Add basic trait impls for `f16` and `f128`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123085)
+- [Add aarch64-apple-visionos and aarch64-apple-visionos-sim tier 3 targets](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121419)
+- [Changes to Rust's WASI targets](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/updates-to-rusts-wasi-targets.html)
+- [RFC: patchable-function-entry](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3543) was merged
+- [unsafe attributes RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3325) completed FCP
+- FCP complete to stabilize [raw slice len() method (slice_ptr_len, const_slice_ptr_len)](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71146)
+- [stabilize ptr.is_aligned](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121948)
+- [downgrade ptr.is_aligned_to crate-private](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121920)
+- [transmute: caution against int2ptr transmutation](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/122379)
+- New RFC: [Add realign_stack attribute to rustc](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3594)
+- [`c_unwind` full stabilization request: change in extern "C" behavior](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/115285)
+
+## `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.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@maintainer_1](https://github.com/maintainer_1)</span>
+
+    The `repo_name` crate ...<<short introduction>>...
+
+    We merged the following changes this month:
+    <<changelog, either in list or text form>>
+-->
+
+### [`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)
+
+
+## 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.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`owner_name/repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/owner_name/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">(Section written by [@your_github_name](https://github.com/your_github_name))</span>
+
+    ...<<your project updates>>...
+-->
+
+<span class="gray">No projects updates were submitted this month.</span>
+
+## 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 [gitter channel](https://gitter.im/rust-osdev/Lobby).