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Leverage illumos-rs

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Description

The illumos-rs already has some general functionality that's implemented in OPTE.

For example

  • oxidecomputer/illumos-rs#3

We should continue the trend of moving generally useful things to illumos-rs and then just import those things in OPTE and other rust-based drivers that need them. The rusty-modules branch also has a foundation for building drivers that would be great to leverage broadly. OPTE/XDE is the only rust module I'm aware of, but I'm starting to work on one for Redhawk.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing illumos-rs issue #3 and the rusty-modules branch, then compare the general functionality currently implemented in OPTE/XDE with what illumos-rs provides. Map which functionality is broadly reusable and how OPTE and other Rust-based drivers could import it. Done means the shared pieces are moved to illumos-rs and leveraged by the relevant drivers.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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