[pta2002]

Yep, that's what I'm referring to.

For now there aren't many popular drivers that use Rust, but there are currently 3 in-development GPU drivers that use it, and I suspect that when those get merged that'll be the real point of no return:

- Asahi Linux's driver for Apple GPUs - https://rust-for-linux.com/apple-agx-gpu-driver

- The Nova GPU driver for NVIDIA GPUs - https://rust-for-linux.com/nova-gpu-driver

- The Tyr GPU driver for Arm Mali GPUs - https://rust-for-linux.com/tyr-gpu-driver

I suspect the first one of those to be actually used in production will be the Tyr driver, especially since Google's part of it and they'll probably want to deploy it on Android, but for the desktop (and server!) Linux use-case, the Nova driver is likely to be the major one.

[jabl]

I believe Google has developed a Rust implementation of the binder driver which was recently merged, and they are apparently planning to remove the original C implementation. Considering binder is essential for Android that would be a major step too.

[jackokring]

I can confirm that the ChromeOS debian container now has defaulted to turn off GPU acceleration, perhaps to turn on other acceleration on this Mali.