Embedded WG newsletter #1

[japaric]

We'll be releasing periodic (biweekly) newsletters (on u.r-l.o https://users.rust-lang.org, unless someone wants to suggest some other medium) about the progress the embedded community is making.

These newsletters are a great chance to:

• Thank old and new contributors for their work ❤️
• Inform the broader Rust community about what we are doing 📢
• Bring in new contributors 👥
• Highlight help-wanted issues and issues that need more input ❗

The first newsletter will be released on 2018-03-15

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Here's some stuff off the top of my head:

• @Emilgardis, @jamesmunns and @ryankurte have become collaborators of the svd and svd2rust
  projects.

• @hannobraun, @ilya-epifanov, @thejpster, @therealprof have become collaborators of the
  embedded-hal project.

• @pcein has released the third weekly driver for the adc-mcp3008, an 8-channel 10-bit ADC.

• [WIP] @varkor has fixed a long standing LLVM bug, that artificially increased the
  binary size of Rust programs, and backported the patch to rustc.

• LLD is now being shipped with the Rust toolchain. @FenrirWolf patched Xargo so that
  Xargo users can make use of it too.

• [HelpWanted] We are pretty close to being able to use LLD to link Rust programs compiled for
  ARM Cortex-M but there are some LLD bugs that still need to be fixed. Help reporting
  these bugs upstream would be greatly appreciated!

• @dvc94ch has created the riscv-rust organization for all your embedded RISCV needs!

• @dylanmckay has begun rebasing the avr-rust/rust fork onto a recent
  rust-lang/rust version, bringing in LLVM 6.0 support.

Feel free to suggest more content / more details in the comments

cc @dylanmckay @dvc94ch @hannobraun @jamesmunns @jcsoo @pftbest @thejpster

[japaric]

More stuff:

• @japaric has released the fourth weekly driver for the enc28j60, an Ethernet controller
  with SPI interface.

• @dbrgn has released the fifth weekly driver for the mcp3425, a 16-bit ADC with I2C
  interface.

• [HelpWanted] Incremental compilation is in the roadmap for this year but it doesn't work with
  no_std binaries due to an old rustc bug related to linking. Help us fix it! There's a proposed solution here.

• [HelpWanted] We want to explore stabilizing some assembly operations in core as an alternative to
  the unstable asm! macro. We would love some help identifying the assembly operations that need
  to be provided this way as some can be implemented in external assembly files without losing
  semantics. Details in Stable assembly operations #63.

[jamesmunns]

Closed by #66.