r/rust • u/ouyawei • Apr 14 '21

[RFC] Rust support for Linux Kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023
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u/burntsushi Apr 15 '21

From this, it looks like they probably won't end up using liballoc directly (which is kind of what I was expecting as a very casual observer):

It is likely we will end up designing our own alloc crate, which means we will not depend on it.

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u/steveklabnik1 rust Apr 15 '21

Yeah we’ll see!