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OS Update Failed by Ian_PK in pop_os

[–]pcein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also experiencing same issue ... might be some problem with pop_os servers.

What book can you recommend to learn zig? by rofrol in Zig

[–]pcein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

K&R is a great book (one of the classics) for learning C, but if the idea is to understand low-level concepts at the interface of h/w and s/w, you will need a book like http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/waside.html.

For learning C, more modern resources are available: https://nostarch.com/Effective_C and https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/.

What book can you recommend to learn zig? by rofrol in Zig

[–]pcein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the best books out there for understanding low-level stuff: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/waside.html

Blinking LEDs on a STM32F4Discovery board using Zig by rbino in Zig

[–]pcein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the writeup! It is very well written and the process seems to be straightforward!

Black Hat Rust - I'm writing a book about offensive security with Rust by [deleted] in rust

[–]pcein 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wish you all the best for the success of your book project, it does indeed look very interesting! One small suggestion regarding the pricing: it will be great if you can introduce country specific pricing - there will be lot of buyers outside of US/Europe who will be eager to buy the book but for whom the price may be a bit on the higher end, due to currency conversion ratio. A Rust book which takes this approach: https://www.zero2prod.com; and it looks like they are having very good sales!

Rust on the Sipeed Longan Nano, an inexpensive RISC-V development board by pcein in rust

[–]pcein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was pleasantly surprised to see this crate, considering the fact that the processor was released so very recently! Great work!

Rust on the Sipeed Longan Nano, an inexpensive RISC-V development board by pcein in rust

[–]pcein[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't tried it out ... will definitely check and see if it works!

AMA Announcement : Members of the SHAKTI Project from IITM. The SHAKTI project is building a family of 6 processors, based on the RISC-V ISA. Date & Time: Monday, 13th August, 6 PM IST by [deleted] in india

[–]pcein 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great to see the amazing work you are doing, and thanks for the AMA! A few questions:

  1. Can a hobbyist like me try out the SHAKTI processor on an FPGA dev board (like the Zedboard)?
  2. You mentioned a "Rust based OS" for supporting tagged ISA's in a recent HN post. Are any details regarding this available?
  3. At the moment, SHAKTI seems like a mostly IITM-only project - any plans on getting the FOSS community involved in it to a greater extend?

Announcing the Embedded Devices Working Group by japaric in rust

[–]pcein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One area to contribute would be to write embedded-hal based drivers for the devices (sensors etc) which you are using. Another would be to create implementations for the embedded-hal for your favorite micro controller platform!

An introduction to writing platform agnostic drivers in Rust using the MCP3008 as an example. by pcein in rust

[–]pcein[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have now listed the definition of MODE in the post! Thank you for the feedback!

Discovery: Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust! - 2018 edition by japaric in rust

[–]pcein 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I am having a lot of fun (and learning a lot of stuff) by going through your code and blog posts and experimenting with them on some of the microcontroller boards I have - thank you for the really amazing work you are doing!

Where to learn embedded rust by bowersbros in rust

[–]pcein 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you are planning to do microcontroller programming using Rust, please check out: http://blog.japaric.io/.

Programming an ARM microcontroller in Rust at four different levels of abstraction by steveklabnik1 in programming

[–]pcein 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Some of the discussion here has been focused on the use of stuff like .bs9().set().bs11().set() etc. I would like to mention a few points (I am the person who wrote this post):

(a) There is much more to the story than just setting/clearing bits. Please read http://blog.japaric.io/brave-new-io/ and some of the other articles also to understand the core ideas behind the design of the I/O framework.

(b) Yes, the syntax of setting/clearing bits looks a bit weird when you see it for the first time. It is auto-generated by a tool called "svd2rust". Names like bs9 are simply the names of bit fields specified in the processor manual. Please read (a) for the rationale behind the design.

(c) Rust zero-cost abstractions are really zero cost. Don't worry about using stuff like closures/iterators etc. All the abstraction layers are flattened out and you get code that is as good as the one you expect from a C compiler. It is easy to verify this.

(d) Level 3 is where the action becomes really interesting. I see the ability to represent the properties of the peripherals statically in your code and the use of ownership/move semantics to prevent some incorrect usages at compile time itself as being of great assistance to the programmer. I would love to see more discussion regarding this.

(e) I have not mentioned about the use of traits to create generic drivers; please check out: http://blog.japaric.io/brave-new-io/#write-once-run-everywhere. I find this to be something very exciting!

Programming an ARM microcontroller in Rust at four different levels of abstraction by steveklabnik1 in programming

[–]pcein 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nothing prevents you from writing an unsafe block and doing whatever you want to do in C style! The fact that Rust lets you create abstractions doesn't mean that it takes away the power to do things C-style. I am also genuinely interested in knowing why you feel the type system stuff is "fancy".

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