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Linux 6.18, Rust Inside Linux, and RISC-V CPU

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

The New Stack ☛ Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel

Additionally, the gradual integration of Rust into the kernel continues, including support for a Rust Binder driver. This is a Google-driven rewrite of the Android Binder driver in Rust. This vital inter-process communication (IPC) system enables two processes on an Android-powered device to communicate with one another.

LWN ☛ The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment

The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit [...]

The New Stack ☛ Rust Goes Mainstream in the Linux Kernel [Ed: LF-funded propaganda in an LF-funded site]

This has been a long time coming. This shift caps five years of sometimes-fierce debate over whether the memory-safe language belonged alongside C at the heart of the world’s most widely deployed open source operating system.

The Register UK ☛ Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana buy

California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel