Meeting 2025-06-24

[adamgreig]

This is the agenda for the next meeting. Please add anything you'd like to discuss below!

• Meetings: Tuesday 8pm Europe/Berlin time
• Join the Matrix chat
• Nominated issues
• IRC/Matrix logs

[rursprung]

there are some old & empty repos which could probably be archived:

• https://github.com/rust-embedded/patterns
• https://github.com/rust-embedded/template
• there might be more - maybe check the repo overview for repos which haven't been updated in a long time: https://github.com/orgs/rust-embedded/repositories?type=all&page=2

[BartMassey]

Want to re-examine the issue of potential "actual" UB in the generated output of svd2rust due to taking references to global storage. I think the plan at some point was to replace the references there with raw pointers, doing explicit raw pointer reads and writes? The relevant issue on the svd2rust Github seems to be #714?

[rursprung]

there's a TF provisioning script for AWS for the WG website: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-embedded-provisioning

is this still used? who's paying for AWS at the moment? can't this site "just" be hosted using GH pages which would be for free? (minus the domain name, which still costs, of course)

[rursprung]

there's a showcase (repo, website) which hasn't been updated in a long time (4 years since the last update to the entries). on the other hand there's the awesome-embedded-rust repo which is much more active and generally being linked to.

would it make sense to unify the two and get rid of one?

[jonathanpallant]

Next face to face meeting for the working group. Oxidize is a potential venue - I can investigate if that is interesting.

[BartMassey]

#838 should probably be picked up again.

[jannic]

Tickets of the week, leftovers from past weeks edition:

(Open from last week)

• Add enter_unprivileged() function cortex-m#594
  Looks like Jonathan already reviewed the code changes. But what about the test case, should it be added to the tests run by CI?

• Clarify usage of #[interrupt] attribute and recommend device crate re… book#386
  Ready to merge? Or better wait for the author to apply the formatting suggestion?

(Open from earlier meetings)

• mmaps: fields coverage svdtools#243
  Is this controversial or can it just be merged? (Current merge conflict is only affecting Cargo.toml and easily fixed.)

• added instructions for finding Meta key on MacOS discovery#584
  Looks sensible - any mac user present to verify this?

• cortex-m-pac crate: standard traits and result handling for Cortex-M targets cortex-m#560
  Had some comments that were resolved 3 weeks ago. Still needs a review.

• HardFaultTrampoline now passes &mut ExceptionFrame cortex-m#515
  Jonathan tried to contact the original author in April, but didn't get an answer yet.

[BartMassey]

As always, thanks huge for this.