This Month in Rust OSDev: February 2025

content/this-month/2025-02/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
++++
+title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: February 2025"
+date = 2025-03-04
+
+[extra]
+month = "February 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.
+
+<!-- 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 (February 2025)" 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
+-->
+
+- [This Month in Redox - January 2025](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250131/)
+- [RSoC 2024: Dynamic Linking - Part 2](https://www.redox-os.org/news/02_rsoc2024_dynamic_linker/)
+- [Asterinas in 2024](https://asterinas.github.io/2025/01/20/asterinas-in-2024.html)
+  - [Asterinas](https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas) is a Linux ABI-compatible OS written from scratch in Rust
+- [Towards Practical Formal Verification for a General-Purpose OS in Rust](https://asterinas.github.io/2025/02/13/towards-practical-formal-verification-for-a-general-purpose-os-in-rust.html)
+- [Writing a Simple Windows Driver in Rust](https://scorpiosoftware.net/2025/02/08/writing-a-simple-driver-in-rust/)
+- [FOSDEM talk: Rust for Linux](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6507-rust-for-linux/)
+- [No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming](https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/03/no-panic-rust.html)
+- [PSA: uuid's getrandom update may break no-std V4/V7 users](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1ihd0hf/psa_uuids_getrandom_update_may_break_nostd_v4v7/)
+- The Embedded Rustacean: [Issue #39](https://www.theembeddedrustacean.com/p/the-embedded-rustacean-issue-39) and [Issue #40](https://www.theembeddedrustacean.com/p/the-embedded-rustacean-issue-40)
+
+## 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
+-->
+
+- [Create a generic AVR target: avr-none](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/131651)
+- [x86: use SSE2 to pass float and SIMD types](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/135408)
+- [add x86-sse2 (32bit) ABI that requires SSE2 target feature](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/137037)
+- [Update to LLVM 20](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/135763)
+
+## `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>>
+-->
+
+### [`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>
+
+`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:
+
+- [relicensing: Rewrite PR "DevicePathToText and DevicePathFromText Protocol"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1528)
+- [Relicense to "MIT OR Apache-2.0"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1531)
+- [Add SPDX headers](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1532)
+- [release: uefi-raw-0.10.0, uefi-macros-0.18.0, uefi-0.34.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1533)
+- [uefi: Update license info in docstring](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1534)
+- [release: uefi-0.34.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1535)
+- [uefi-raw: add Boolean type](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1536)
+- [uefi-raw: use new Boolean type ](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1538)
+- [xtask/uefi-raw: improve check-raw error messages](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1537)
+- [Fix upcoming lints in clippy 1.85](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1541)
+- [uefi: clarify situation with `boot::memory_map()` and `Status::BUFFER_TOO_SMALL`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1540)
+- [Fix uefi-raw MSRV build, and improve CI for MSRV](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1542)
+- [Add PXE types to uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1543)
+- [uefi: Replace definition of MacAddress with a re-export from uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1547)
+- [Use bitflags definitions from uefi-raw in uefi's pxe module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1548)
+- [uefi: Fix the BufferSize argument in SimpleNetwork::transmit](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1550)
+- [Use newtype enum definitions from uefi-raw in uefi's pxe module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1551)
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.29.7](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1544) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1546) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.29.9](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1554) -->
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [Update `x86_64` to `0.15.2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/490)
+- [change rustc-abi in custom targets to x86-softfloat](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/491)
+- [[v0.9] change rustc-abi in custom targets to x86-softfloat](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/492)
+- [Release `v0.11.10`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/493)
+- [Update uart_16550 to 0.3.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/495)
+- [Specify kernel-code virt addr in BootloaderConfig](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/494)
+- [Use `Result::ok`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/496)
+
+Thanks to [@Stazer](https://github.com/Stazer), [@Wasabi375](https://github.com/Wasabi375), and [@ChocolateLoverRaj](https://github.com/ChocolateLoverRaj) 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:
+
+- [Ensure that addition and subtraction of addresses panics on overflow/underflow](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/535)
+- [don't pass -Crelocation-model=static to host targets](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/536)
+
+Thanks to [@farnz](https://github.com/farnz) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [acpi: fix build errors](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/240)
+
+Thanks to [@jellllly420](https://github.com/jellllly420) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`ovmf-prebuilt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop) and [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</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:
+
+- [Add 202408.01, 202411, and 202502 releases](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/139)
+- [fix(deps): update rust crate ureq to v3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/146)
+- [Set `Source::LATEST` to `EDK2_STABLE202502_R1`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/145)
+- [release: 0.2.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/140)
+y
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/135) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/136) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/137) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/138) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/144) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/148) -->
+
+Thanks to [@mkroening](https://github.com/mkroening) for their contributions!
+
+
+
+
+## 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 [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com).