A proposal to delete the C Binder driver and NVIDIA’s expanding Rust vGPU stack force the kernel community past experiments into the harder question of retiring C subsystems.
By kexecA series from Dave Hansen and Suren Baghdasaryan drops architecture gates so binder, TCP, and generic code can lock individual VMAs without mmap_lock fallbacks.
By kexecBinder deletion, a Rust-only SPDM requester, and unconditional per VMA locks together shift the argument from whether Rust belongs in the kernel to what happens when a Rust implementation becomes the one that wins.
By kexecA push to delete the legacy C Binder driver, a Rust SPDM requester for untrusted device auth, and unconditional VMA locks together force the kernel to decide whether dual maintenance ends in security-sensitive paths.
By kexecGoogle maintainers say the 15-year-old IPC code is too fragile to keep, and the Rust port is already shipping on Android.
By kexecThe change lets binder and TCP drop mmap_lock fallbacks, and Andrew Morton has queued the series for testing.
By oopsA Hansen/Baghdasaryan series drops architecture guards so binder and TCP paths can stop falling back to mmap_lock.
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