miselin/rustic

Rustic Embedded Framework

rustic's Issues

Document license and contributors better.

Currently the license header contains my name and there is no central CONTRIB file or similar that offers a central way to figure out who has contributed code to Rustic.

In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, this should be improved.

Replace the deprecated zero.rs with rust-core or some other alternative.

rust-core is in active development, and, in time, it should provide functionality similar to std, without requiring more runtime support than is needed for each feature.

Use rustpkg to compile the kernel crate

Currently dependencies don't work too well in the Makefile. Ideally we'd use something like rustpkg to manage the actual compilation of the kernel crate (and any other important crates), and then link the results together with the C and ASM glue.

Because we have no real way of determining a recompile is necessary when anything other than main.rs changes, we will probably just have to run rustpkg every time make is executed. This is a real incentive to make sure we're avoiding as much cruft in the code as possible to optimise compile time.

This would need to be done in such a way that cross-compiling doesn't break. Fortunately I do a reasonable amount of development on OSX where we cross from the Mach host to ELF target, so it will be immediately obvious if things are broken.

Define and document the code style and module structure.

Inconsistency should be avoided where possible.

Rust itself uses UpperCamelCase for non-primitive type names and traits, while the current code base has a few structures using lowercasewithnospaces.

For the module structure, for example, io/x86 is preffered over arch/x86/io, and allows for easy automatic import:

// in io/mod.rs:
#[cfg(arch="x86")]
pub use x86::*;
// everything exported by io/x86.rs or io/x86/mod.rs shows up in io.

C code in rustic

Hi,
I wonder if you should use C code in rustic. I mean it would be better if you use only asm (inline or external) and Rust, like rustboot does.
It's just a sugestion from a poor newbie. Good work! Go on!