Re: [edk2-devel] Applying for GSoC 2022: Add Rust Support to EDK II

["Nate DeSimone" <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>]

Hi Ayush,

Great to meet you and welcome to the TianoCore project! Great to hear you are interested! Apologize for the tardiness in my response. Implementing Rust support sounds like a wonderful project and one that would really help advance the state of the art for UEFI firmware development! I am looking for someone with Rust experience that can help mentor this project. My usage of Rust at time of writing has not advanced very far beyond "Hello World." While I can give a great deal of knowledge and background on UEFI and EDK II, my ability to recommend how that be applied to a Rust binding is limited. However, I do know enough to suspect the vast majority of the work will be figuring out how to integrate the vast array of libraries that EDK II provides into a coherent and clean Rust binding. The one aspect of this project that I think will be interesting is figuring out is what to do about std:: in Rust. From what I have seen of the functionality there more or less assumes the existence of a libc implementation for the platform, which is not necessarily true for DXE and is absolutely not true for PEI. I would be interested in hearing your thought on how to handle that elegantly.

I'm sorry that your patches haven't gotten much attention thus far. Once I find mentor(s) for the Rust project I'll make sure they pick those up and take a look at the work you have done thus far.

Hope this helps and welcome to the project!

With Best Regards,
Nate

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From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ayush Singh
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Cc: Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com; Desimone, Nathaniel L <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>; mhaeuser@posteo.de
Subject: [edk2-devel] Applying for GSoC 2022: Add Rust Support to EDK II

Hello everyone, I am a 2nd-year University Student from India. I am interested in applying for adding Rust support to EDK2. I have already introduced myself to the mailing list earlier
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/87637) and have even submitted some patches for the edkii-rust branch in edk2-staging (which were not merged since that branch seems to be abandoned now).
- https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/87753
- https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/87754
- https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/87755
- https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/87756

Anyway, since no mentor has been listed for this project, I was wondering who should I discuss the proposal with? Normally, I think one is supposed to discuss the proposal details with a mentor in form of a google doc or something before submitting an application. So should I directly start by submitting a proposal through the GSoC application portal? Or is there someone I should contact first?

Ayush Singh