Merge pull request #65 from rust-osdev/next

This Month in Rust OSDev (July 2021)

Author: phil-opp

config.toml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ feed_filename = "rss.xml"
 skip_prefixes = [
     "https://crates.io/crates", # see https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/788
     "https://github.com", # because of rate limiting
+    "https://rusty-hermit.k8s.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/", # RustyHermit show case
 ]
 
 [extra]

content/this-month/2021-07/index.md

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+title = "This Month in Rust OSDev (July 2021)"
+date = 2021-08-07
+
+[extra]
+month = "July 2021"
+authors = [
+    "phil-opp",
+    "IsaacWoods",
+    "GabrielMajeri",
+    # add yourself here
+]
++++
+
+Welcome to a new issue of _"This Month in Rust OSDev"_. In these posts, we give a regular overview of notable changes in the Rust operating system development ecosystem.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+This series is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/). Feel free to open pull requests there with content you would like to see in the next issue. If you find some issues on this page, please report them by [creating an issue](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/issues/new) or using our [_comment form_](#comment-form) at the bottom of this page.
+
+<!--
+    This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (July 2021)" post.
+    Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your
+    content here.
+    Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the
+    general structure of these posts.
+-->
+
+## Project Updates
+
+In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the [`rust-osdev`] organization.
+
+[`rust-osdev`]: https://github.com/rust-osdev/about
+
+### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs)
+
+The `uefi` crate provides safe and performant wrappers for [UEFI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface), the successor to the BIOS. In July, we merged the following changes:
+
+- [Add support for getting/setting variables](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/245)
+- [Better logger that includes filename and line](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/246)
+- [device path: add constants for all subtypes](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/250)
+- [device path: change the length type to u16](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/251)
+- [Implement `BootServices::protocols_per_handle`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/253)
+- [Add method to get variable names](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/254)
+- [Better `fmt::Debug` for `Time` struct + `fmt::Display`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/256)
+- [Fix `BltRegion::Full` bounds check](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/257)
+- [Fix procedural macros](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/260)
+- [device path: add header struct](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/263)
+- [device path: add iter method and test](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/264)
+
+Thanks to [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), [@MaulingMoneky](https://github.com/MaulingMonkey), [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611) and [@necauqua](https://github.com/necauqua) for their contributions!
+
+### [`acpi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi)
+
+The `acpi` repository contains crates for parsing the ACPI tables – data structures that the firmware of modern computers use to relay information about the hardware to the OS.
+This month:
+
+- [Definitions were added for the FADT's fixed and architecture flags](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/103)
+- [Table signatures were added for more static tables](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/103)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefPowerResource` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/7f6bb2ee53c9abb6c552434dbdb4e13cf38b6b26)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefThermalZone` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/a55d82bad3e5b7ffd42d19487a57ca65359e3bad)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefExternal` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/188d62fdab853c16e9c3e66bb183acc3e1c9f134)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefConcat` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/6f92f675a4b0e21a5bc63edd99de1010efdb61fa)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefConcatRes` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/a883868dd57473a61a095c56d3e7490dfe012700)
+- [AML: support was added for the `DefMid` opcode](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/commit/a37008df127c6f2160c1a2ac3ba5f536f8616732)
+
+These changes were published as `acpi v3.1.0` and `aml v0.14.0`. Thanks to [@ethindp](https://github.com/ethindp)
+and [@toku-sa-n](https://github.com/toku-sa-n) for their contributions.
+
+### [`multboot2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2)
+
+The `multiboot2` crate provides abstraction types for the boot information of multiboot2 bootloaders.
+
+In July, our `multiboot2` maintenance team gained [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611) as a new member. Welcome!
+
+The following changes were merged this month:
+
+- [much improved debug output of BootInformation + enum TagType](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/76) <span class="gray">(published as `v0.11.0`)</span>
+- [Set up CI on Github Actions](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/commit/1d7c0e21fe532550f5ee9757252881e18c88a063)
+- [Add multiboot2 magic number](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/77)
+- [Fixing future compiler error "unaligned_references" (82523)](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/82)
+- [Rust edition 2018 + formatting + clippy](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/84)
+- [**Breaking:** `load` returns a result now (no more assertions that could panic)](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/80)
+- [Renamed multiboot2 bootloader magic constant](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/85)
+- [Cargo toml prepare relase v0.12 + changelog](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/87) <span class="gray">(published as `v0.12.0`)</span>
+- [Rename old Github urls in README](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/88)
+
+### [`x86_64`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64)
+
+The `x86_64` crate provides various abstractions for `x86_64` systems, including wrappers for CPU instructions, access to processor-specific registers, and abstraction types for architecture-specific structures such as page tables and descriptor tables.
+
+In July, we merged the following improvements:
+
+- [feat(idt): make it available in the stable Rust](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/271)
+- [gdt: Fix off-by-one error in from_raw_slice()](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/269)
+- [Make align_up and align_down const](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/270)
+- [Add a SelectorErrorCode to segment_not_present in IDT](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/274)
+- [Add flags for CR0, CR4 and XCR0, as well as extra checks for modification of XCR0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/273)
+- [fix(Changelog.md): typo #278](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/278)
+- [feat(instructions): define `tables::sgdt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/279)
+- [Create a CI script for automated releases](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/281)
+- [CI: Use more efficient crates.io API endpoint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/282)
+- [Release version to 0.14.4](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/283)
+- [Rename XCr0 and CR4 flags](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/275)
+
+Thanks to [@budde25](https://github.com/budde25) and [@toku-sa-n](https://github.com/toku-sa-n) for their contributions.
+
+## Call for Participation
+
+Want to contribute to a Rust OSDev project, but don't know where to start? Pick up one of these outstanding
+issues in one of our projects and get started!
+
+<!--
+Please use the following template for adding items:
+- [(`repo_name`) Issue Description](https://example.com/link-to-issue)
+-->
+
+<span class="gray">
+
+_No tasks were proposed for this section._
+
+</span>
+
+If you maintain a Rust OSDev project and are looking for contributors, especially for tasks suited to people
+getting started in this space, please [create a PR](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) against the
+`next` branch with the tasks you want to include in the next issue.
+
+
+## Personal Projects
+
+In this section, we describe updates to personal projects that are not directly related to the `rust-osdev` organization. Feel free to [create a pull request](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) with the updates of your OS project for the next post.
+
+### [`phil-opp/blog_os`](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os)
+
+<span class="gray">(Section written by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp))</span>
+
+This month, the [_Writing an OS in Rust_](https://os.phil-opp.com) blog received the following updates:
+
+- [Translate first two posts into Russian](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1029)
+  - Thanks to [@MrZloHex](https://github.com/MrZloHex) for the translation and [@SnejUgal](https://github.com/SnejUgal) and [@vdjagilev](https://github.com/vdjagilev) for reviewing!
+- [docs: update version of crates](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1031)
+- [Replace MS doc link in german](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1034)
+- Typo fixes in the [_Paging Implementation_](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1032), [_Allocator Designs_](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1040), and [_Async Await_](https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/1036) posts.
+
+Thanks to [@Foo-x](https://github.com/Foo-x), [@adi-g15](https://github.com/adi-g15), [@Kalbiq](https://github.com/Kalbiq), and [@MrZloHex](https://github.com/MrZloHex) for their contributions.
+
+## Join Us?
+
+Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [gitter channel](https://gitter.im/rust-osdev/Lobby).