Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows driver development in Rust”

• windows-drivers-rs

  5 1,342 8.3 Rust

  Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust. Developed by Surface.

  

• KernelSharp

  3 175 0.0 C#

  C# Kernel Mode Driver example using NativeAOT

Here's an example [1] of a device driver in C#. It is possible. It is also not recommended.

[1] https://github.com/VollRagm/KernelSharp

• WorkOS

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• UIforETW

  18 1,528 5.5 C++

  User interface for recording and managing ETW traces

  

You can use UI4ETW[0] to capture an event trace when the mouse freezes. You may need to install the Windows SDK or Visual Studio to interpret the results, though.

[0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW

• Rust-for-Linux

  79 3,792 0.0 C

  Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel. (by Rust-for-Linux)

  

> How would this work?

Don't know exactly what you're asking.

> And why would it be a better idea?

Poorly written device drivers are a significant attack vector. It's one of the reasons Linux is now exploring using Rust for its own device drivers.[0] You may be asking -- why Rust and not some other language? Rust has many of the performance and interoperability advantages of C and C++, but as noted, makes certain classes of memory safety issues impossible. Rust also has significant mindshare among systems programming communities.

[0]: https://rust-for-linux.com

• shared_memory

  2 366 0.0 Rust

  A Rust wrapper around native shared memory for Linux and Windows

> Rust type system doesn't help when the data resides in a shared memory segment accessed by multiple processes.

This isn't quite true. You can provide a safe abstraction that involves cross-process locking APIs. https://github.com/elast0ny/shared_memory/blob/HEAD/examples... is an example using a mutex guard.

Rust's type system helps more in some cases than others but you can get at least some help from it almost all of the time.

• Meadow.Foundation

  1 132 9.7 C#

  Unified driver and library framework for Meadow applications.

  

Like this, for a possible example,

https://github.com/WildernessLabs/Meadow.Foundation

• Cosmos

  14 2,834 9.6 C#

  Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!

  

I didn't realise that. Then again, I only experimented with AOT executables quite briefly. Perhaps Cosmos[1] stuck in my head more than what I read about AOT dotnet applications.

[1]: https://github.com/CosmosOS/Cosmos

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