Merge pull request #239 from rust-osdev/next

This Month in Rust OSDev: November 2024

Author: phil-opp

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-- [A GUI installer for redox is coming soon, written in iced!](https://fosstodon.org/@soller/109674396246472281)
-  - [Discussion on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/109qm9j/media_a_gui_installer_for_redox_is_coming_soon/)
+- [A GUI installer for redox is coming soon, written in iced!](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/109qm9j/media_a_gui_installer_for_redox_is_coming_soon/)
 - [cargo-show-asm 0.2.10](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/107h9ay/cargoshowasm_0210_new_and_improved_all_over_the/)
 - [RustyHermit @ FOSDEM 2023: A Rust-Based, modular Unikernel for MicroVMs](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rustunikernel/)
 

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+title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: November 2024"
+date = 2024-12-08
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+[extra]
+month = "November 2024"
+editors = ["phil-opp"]
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+
+Welcome to a new issue of _"This Month in Rust OSDev"_. In these posts, we give a regular overview of notable changes in the Rust operating system development ecosystem.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+This series is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/). Feel free to open pull requests there with content you would like to see in the next issue. If you find some issues on this page, please report them by [creating an issue](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/issues/new) or using our <a href="#comment-form">_comment form_</a> at the bottom of this page.
+
+<!--
+    This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (November 2024)" post.
+    Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your
+    content here.
+    Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the
+    general structure of these posts.
+-->
+
+## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts
+
+Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust.
+
+<!--
+Please follow this template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [VEKOS, a cryptographically verified hobby OS written in Rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h5vh2g/vekos_a_cryptographically_verified_hobby_os/)
+- [Rust in Production: Oxide Computer Company with Steve Klabnik (Podcast Interview)](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gr9tqp/rust_in_production_oxide_computer_company_with/)
+- [This Month in Redox - November 2024](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-241130/)
+- [‘Tis the Season for COSMIC Alpha 4!](https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-4/)
+- [a #![no_std], #![no_main], no-[#tokio] runtime for AWS Lambda](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h40cdd/a_no_std_no_main_notokio_runtime_for_aws_lambda/)
+- [Ferrocene 24.11.0 released with medical qualification](https://public-docs.ferrocene.dev/main/release-notes/24.11.0.html) ([reddit discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h1261s/ferrocene_24110_update_medical_qualification_is/))
+- [Embive: A low-level sandboxing library for RISC-V bytecode](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gxm414/embive_a_lowlevel_sandboxing_library_for_riscv/)
+- [Rust in QEMU roadmap](https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/)
+- [kartoffels, a game where you implement a firmware for a potato, v0.6 released! 🥔](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gvrtnq/kartoffels_a_game_where_you_implement_a_firmware/)
+
+## Infrastructure and Tooling
+
+In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [mark some target features as 'forbidden' so they cannot be (un)set with `-Ctarget-feature`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129884)
+- [show `abi_unsupported_vector_types` lint in future breakage reports](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/133374)
+- [Stabilize `extended_varargs_abi_support`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/116161)
+
+## `rust-osdev` Projects
+
+In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the [`rust-osdev`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/about) organization.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@maintainer_1](https://github.com/maintainer_1)</span>
+
+    The `repo_name` crate ...<<short introduction>>...
+
+    We merged the following changes this month:
+    <<changelog, either in list or text form>>
+-->
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [fix field order for INVPCID descriptor](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/508)
+- [fix CI job for building on MSRV](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/510)
+- [gate HandlerFunc behind target_arch = "x86{_64}"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/507)
+- [fix typo in "InvPicdCommand"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/509)
+- [TryFrom implementation for ExceptionVector](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/506)
+- [Typo fix in TaskStateSegment comment](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/504)
+- [Minor clarification DescriptorTablePointer::limit comment](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/503)
+- [fix signature of Step::steps_between implementations](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/513)
+- [release 0.15.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/519)
+- [backport #513](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/520)
+
+Thanks to [@mrjbom](https://github.com/mrjbom) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [Implement the multiprocessor wakeup mechanism.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/225)
+- [acpi-dumper: fix invocation of compile_error!](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/229)
+- [aml: make resource descriptor fields public](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/228)
+- [acpi: fix clippy warnings and run clippy in CI](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/230)
+- [acpi: fix doc warnings and add missing links](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/231)
+- [acpi: spcr: fix typo](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/232)
+
+Thanks to [@pjhades](https://github.com/pjhades), [@00xc](https://github.com/00xc), and [@Hsy-Intel](https://github.com/Hsy-Intel) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`bootloader`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span>
+
+The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following improvements:
+
+- [Remove 3dnow features from stage4 target](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/471)
+- [mention E820 in docs for UnknownBios](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/461)
+- [release v0.11.8](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/469)
+- [copy more PML4 entries](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/466)
+- [Convert LF to CRLF when writing to serial port](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/474)
+- [Update x86_64](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/478)
+- [release v0.11.9](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/479)
+
+Thanks to [@Ollrogge](https://github.com/Ollrogge), [@ChocolateLoverRaj](https://github.com/ChocolateLoverRaj), and [@Makonede](https://github.com/Makonede) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [chore(config): migrate renovate config](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1456)
+- [uefi: Deny clippy::ref_as_ptr](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1455)
+- [Move the UnicodeCollation protocol definition to `uefi-raw` and use it from `uefi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1459)
+- [Use ovmf-prebuilt](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1454)
+- [xtask: Update OVMF prebuilts](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1463)
+- [uefi-raw: Drop unused dependency on ptr_meta](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1465)
+- [Fix `cargo xtask fmt --check`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1464)
+- [Fix minor typo in protocols.md](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1467)
+- [Add TCG protocols to `uefi-raw` and use them from `uefi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1469)
+- [Mention to turn off secure boot.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1468)
+- [Clean up some use of unsafe in MemoryMapRefMut](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1483)
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1457) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.27.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1460) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1461) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.27.3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1471) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1475) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1479) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update codecov/codecov-action action to v5](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1478) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1482) -->
+
+Thanks to [@diekmann](https://github.com/diekmann) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`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:
+
+- [ovmf-prebuilt: Update readme](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/101)
+- [release: 0.2.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/102)
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/105) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/106) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/107) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/109) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/110) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/111) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/112) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/113) -->
+
+
+### [`uart_16550`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uart_16550)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span>
+
+The `uart_16550` crate provides basic support for serial port I/O for 16550-compatible UARTs. We merged the following change this month:
+
+- [feat(mmio): add `new_with_stride`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uart_16550/pull/36)
+
+Thanks to [@kouchekiniad](https://github.com/kouchekiniad) for their contribution!
+
+## Other Projects
+
+In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly related to the `rust-osdev` organization. Feel free to [create a pull request](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) with the updates of your OS project for the next post.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`owner_name/repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/owner_name/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">(Section written by [@your_github_name](https://github.com/your_github_name))</span>
+
+    ...<<your project updates>>...
+-->
+
+<span class="gray">
+
+_No projects were proposed for this section this month._
+
+</span>
+
+
+## Join Us?
+
+Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com).