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Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI

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364 points Klasiaster | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 12:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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depressedpanda ◴[15 Oct 24 19:03 UTC] No.41851981[source]▶
From the README:

> Currently, Asterinas only supports x86-64 VMs. However, our aim for 2024 is to make Asterinas production-ready on x86-64 VMs.

I'm confused.

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1. netbsdusers ◴[16 Oct 24 10:23 UTC] No.41857461[source]▶
They lack essential things for a kernel that could be used in production, viz. not kernel panicing during out-of-memory conditions, not an easy thing to retrofit when you have designed without consideration of it. It will probably take a bit more than 2 and a half months to rectify that.

https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas/issues/669

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2. empath75 ◴[16 Oct 24 16:34 UTC] No.41861060[source]▶
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043

They've been working on it for a while so they can get rust into the linux kernel