Honestly, I'm kind of sad about Wedson leaving RfL. He developed a huge part of the foundation that made Rust for Linux possible.
I'll still work on DRM (except sched) and driver upstreaming when the core stuff is in place, but I don't know about other subsystems.
At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if upstreaming the drm/asahi driver isn't possible until 2026 at the earliest. I had hopes for things to move much faster, but that's not possible without active cooperation from existing maintainers, and we aren't getting it.
Reading upstreaming mailing list threads is painful. Every second comment is "why is this not like C" or "do it like C". Nobody is putting any effort into understanding why Rust exists and why it works. It's just superficial "this code is scary and foreign" type reactions.
I know the (top level) DRM maintainers are at least somewhat committed to making this work, and even there I ran into the drm_sched guy blocking simple fix patches. Every other subsystem is an unknown.
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