Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.
The holy and sage advice of the dino developers is to not do Rust. You know, not do a thing that Saint Linus himself authorized. Except Saint Linus is apparently not willing to walk the walk in this particular case.
We’re overdue for a Linux fork anyway.
Not a fork of course but there is Redox
https://www.redox-os.org/
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Is there anything in the kernel that makes it compatible with X11 or Wayland over the other? I know that there’s a graphic driver discussion in the background, but still.
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The kernel is unrelated to the choice of display manager.
No. The kernel does not care about X11 vs Wayland. Or rather, both X11 and Wayland use KMS ( Kernel Mode Setting ) and DRM ( Direct Rendering ) these days. That is, both X11 and Wayland call on the same kernel features.
RISC-V is the “new” CPU architecture
Correct.