Prepare content for (late) October newsletter

Author: phil-opp

content/this-month/2024-10/index.md

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 title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: October 2024"
-date = 2024-11-03
+date = 2024-11-14
 
 [extra]
 month = "October 2024"
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   - (optional) Some additional context
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+- [This Month in Redox - October 2024](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-241031/)
+- [Smart pointers for the kernel](https://lwn.net/Articles/992055/)
+- [On Rust in enterprise kernels](https://lwn.net/Articles/993337/)
+- [Unsafe Rust Is Harder Than C](https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/)
+- [Version `v2.0.0` of `thiserror` released with `no_std` support](https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror/releases/tag/2.0.0)
+
 ## Infrastructure and Tooling
 
 In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development.
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   - (optional) Some additional context
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+- [Taking a raw ref (`&raw (const|mut)`) of a deref of pointer (`*ptr`) is always safe](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129248)
+- [mark some target features as 'forbidden' so they cannot be (un)set with `-Ctarget-feature`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129884)
+- [make `unsupported_calling_conventions` a hard error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129935)
+
 
 ## `rust-osdev` Projects
 
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     <<changelog, either in list or text form>>
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+### [`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:
+
+- [uefi-macros: Require that the entry function takes zero args](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1418)
+- [uefi: Delete the deprecated `uefi::table::{boot,system}` modules](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1417)
+- [uefi: Derive Eq/PartialEq for GptPartitionEntry](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1421)
+- [uefi: Add CStr16 conversions from slices with interior nuls](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1422)
+- [uefi: Improve the VariableKey type and iterator](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1424)
+- [Update timeline section of funcs_migration.md](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1429)
+- [xtask: Add action to generate a code coverage report](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1423)
+- [nix: add cargo-llvm-cov to nix shell + niv update](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1439)
+- [Codecov configuration updates](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1440)
+- [Move DeviceType and DeviceSubType enums to uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1442)
+- [Add device path node types to uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1445)
+- [release: uefi-raw-0.9.0, uefi-macros-0.17.0, uefi-0.33.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1446)
+- [Increase MSRV to 1.79](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1448)
+
+<!-- - [fix(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.19](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1408) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1427) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.25.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1425) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update cachix/install-nix-action action to v30](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1428) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.26.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1432) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1433) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1434) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1437) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1444) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.26.8](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1449) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1451) -->
+<!-- - [fix(deps): update rust crate fs-err to v3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1452) -->
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [Remove stabilized `const_mut_refs` feature](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/501)
+- [Fix clippy warnings](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/502)
+
+
+### [`pci_types`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/pci_types)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods)</span>
+
+The `pci_types` library provides types for accessing and configuring PCI devices from Rust operating systems. We merged the following change this month:
+
+- [Add set bus number funcs](https://github.com/rust-osdev/pci_types/pull/36)
+
+Thanks to [@ZR233](https://github.com/ZR233) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [Implement ovmf-prebuilt library](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/92)
+- [Add release workflow](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/93)
+- [release: 0.2.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/96)
+- [release: 0.2.0 (take two)](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/98)
+
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/89) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/90) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/91) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/95) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/97) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/99) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/100) -->
+
+### [`multiboot2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>
+
+_Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Boot Information (MBI) structures and
+the contained information tags. Usable in no_std environments, such as a kernel.
+An optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding
+structures._
+
+We merged the following PRs this month:
+
+<!-- - [build(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.24.3 to 1.25.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/242) -->
+<!-- - [build(deps): bump cachix/install-nix-action from V27 to 29](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/241) -->
+- [multiboot2: various small fixes and doc improvements](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/245)
+- [multiboot2: bug fixes](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/246)
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [Add `from_rsdt` method for `AcpiTables`.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/222)
+
+Thanks to [@Hsy-Intel](https://github.com/Hsy-Intel) for their contributions!
+
 
 ## Other Projects
 
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     ...<<your project updates>>...
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+_No updates were proposed for this section this month._
 
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