This Month in Rust OSDev: October 2025
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.
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Announcements, News, and Blog Posts
Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust.
- This Month in Redox - October 2025
- Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware
- Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes - who wins?
- Motor OS is now a Tier-3 target in Rust
Infrastructure and Tooling
In this section, we collect recent updates to rustc, cargo, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development.
rust-osdev Projects
In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the rust-osdev organization.
acpi
Maintained by @IsaacWoods
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. We merged the following changes this month:
Thanks to @jackpot51 for their contributions!
ovmf-prebuilt
Maintained by @nicholasbishop and @phil-opp
The ovmf-prebuilt project provides pre-built edk2 releases to make it easier to set up OVMF. We merged the following improvement this month:
- Add loongarch support
- Update the riscv64 toolchain
- feat: add LoongArch64 architecture support and update to latest prebuilt version
- release: 0.2.4 with edk2-stable202508-r1
Thanks to @ZR233 for their contribution!
uefi-rs
Maintained by @GabrielMajeri, @nicholasbishop, and @phip1611
uefi makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient,
and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.
We merged the following PRs this month:
- ci: fix latest nightly issues
- style: apply/fix more clippy lints (from cargo::nursery)
- uefi-raw: net: add convenient into_* helpers
- uefi-raw: net: code improvements
- uefi-raw: net: add convenient From impls + integration with core::net
- uefi: Improve AlignedBuffer API with more accessors and copy_from_iter()
- uefi: Add bindings for the HII_CONFIG_ROUTING protocol
- uefi: document udp_read of PXE protocol + improve test
- uefi-raw: add unit test for typical high-level net API usage
- uefi: Wrap AtaPassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell
- uefi: Wrap ScsiPassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell
- uefi: Wrap NmvePassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell
- uefi: use core::net-types in public API + remove duplications
- uefi: remove inconsistent println!
- style: apply/fix more clippy lints (from cargo::nursery) (2/2)
- release: uefi-raw-0.12.0, uefi-macros-0.19.0, uefi-0.36.0
- uefi-raw/uefi: Replace doc_auto_cfg with doc_cfg
- uefi-raw: Replace remaining uses of bool with Boolean
- xtask: Check uefi-raw for uses of the primitive bool type
- uefi: improve doc for device path construction
Thanks to @seijikun for their contribution!
multiboot2
Maintained by @phip1611
Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Boot Information (MBI) structures and the contained information tags. Usable in no_std environments, such as a kernel. An optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding structures.
We merged the following PRs this month:
Other Projects
In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly related to the rust-osdev organization. Feel free to create a pull request with the updates of your OS project for the next post.
No projects updates were submitted this month.
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