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Embedded Rust Education: 2023 Reflections & 2024 Visions
Inspired by James Munns's call, and as 2023 is coming to an end, I figure it's a good opportunity to reflect and look forward to 2024. It's been a bit over 1.5 years since I embarked on my embedded Rust journey and it's been nothing less than exciting since. So here it goes.
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In search of Rust projects to contribute
Because you are an embedded guy. There is the https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg working-group. Rust on embedded is really on a got track forward. There are many chips/vendors that are supported both in no std / std rust world, but still there is a lot of niche things where you can actively help to be the first to get it run in Rust.
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Rust – Are We Game Yet?
To specifically answer your question, here:
* <http://www.areweembeddedyet.com/>
It currently redirects to:
* <https://rust-embedded.org>
Which doesn't really contain anything other than a link to <https://github.com/rust-embedded>.
(via <https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/15>)
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Google announce secure Rust-based OS for embedded system
Then the Rust Embedded workgroup provides: - Direction on how to using generics and zero-sized types to achieve functional safety - svd2rust, which provides safe abstractions to peripheral access from SVD files and achieves this functional safety - The embedded HAL spec, which makes porting to different vendors/hardware easy - Peripheral access controllers and HALs for various vendors & hardware
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What are your guys' thoughts on Rust?
The Rust Embedded Devices Working Group curates a list of useful embedded Rust resources, including Peripheral Access Crates (autogenerated from SVD files), embedded-hal Implementation Crates (hand-written libraries implementing the traits (interfaces) specified by the embedded-hal), and Board Support Crates.
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Question about Rust's binary size
You should also look at https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/41 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/55011#issuecomment-429336055.
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Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
Here's an interesting discussion, consolidated here. My view is you should use a restricted scope atomic (as best as can be supported) and interact with that through a handler struct. I.e. no global state.
- Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You
- Is there a embedded community/website where it is modern?
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Would it be possible to run Rust on the new Raspberry Pi Pico?
Most of the issues are explained in EWG RFC 419. The TL;DR is that some resources need to implement Send to be usable from interrupts, but they must not be sent across cores.
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OxidOS Automotive
Hi! This is Daniel from OxidOS Automotive (stating this for disclaimer purposes).
Yes, our OS is based on TockOS, and our CEO (Alex Radovici) is #7 in the contributors list (https://github.com/tock/tock/graphs/contributors), with other colleagues contributing in the past years.
- What is the best library to write a SCADA-like application for web?
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Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations
I'm definitely not the best person to answer this, but honestly it's not bad. Here's an example of a moderately complex peripheral, the cortex-m MPU, and how one rust OS handles it:
https://github.com/tock/tock/blob/3a0527d586702b8ae8cb242391...
Reads and writes turn into volatile reads, so everything works out under the hood. You get the benefits of everything having good names, declared sizes, and proper typing on your register accesses. You can extend that to bit accesses as well.
Rust still has a few areas it isn't competitive in, like your hyper limited or obscure chips (e.g. 8051s, XAP), mature tooling around formal methods, and a certification story for safety critical code. People are working on these latter two issues (e.g. ferrocene) and supposedly very close to public delivery, but you know how slow the industry is to adopt new things even then.
- Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here?
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Real-Time Operating Systems 101: Basics for Efficient Computing
There's Tock (https://www.tockos.org/), which is written in Rust (with sprinkles of assembly).
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Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way
Yeah, and I like I mentioned in the earlier comment, omitting the frame pointer reduces code size by 10% on RISC-V targets, which is huge when dealing with embedded flash: https://github.com/tock/tock/pull/1660
- Where are the C Alternatives?
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Embedded real time OS
Tock is an excellent embedded OS written in Rust and has some good industrial support. I think Tock gets a lot of stuff right and I highly recommend some of the talks the developers gave on it.
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Fedora now has frame pointers
Unfortunately, it increases the code size by 10%. I was looking into this just last week, and can confirm that it's still a problem on the latest version of Rust nightly: https://github.com/tock/tock/pull/1660
I wish we could have frame pointers, because they would make working in embedded land so much easier and more reliable, but a 10% increase in code size just isn't worth it.
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Rust OS
TockOS was the first rust RTOS I found. Coincidentally, it has had support for the esp32c3 for over a year now.
What are some alternatives?
rust-semverver - Automatic checking for semantic versioning in library crates
awesome-embedded-rust - Curated list of resources for Embedded and Low-level development in the Rust programming language
pico-examples
rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutorials - :books: Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust :crab:
flip-link - Adds zero-cost stack overflow protection to your embedded programs
hubris - A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.
erdtree - A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.
redox - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox
not-yet-awesome-embedded-rust - A collection of items that are not yet awesome in Embedded Rust
rtic - Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency (RTIC) framework for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers
TX-2-simulator - Simulator for the pioneering TX-2 computer
smoltcp - a smol tcp/ip stack