Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 28 · Jul 7 – 13, 2025
Introducing Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver
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- What changed
- The Rust team introduced
Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver. - Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Read the crate documentation to understand how to use the driver.
- Source
- this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/07/09/this-week-in-rust-607/
Understand it, then run it
The Rust project has announced a new driver called Tyr. It is a DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver written in Rust. DRM drivers are low‑level pieces of code that let the operating system talk to graphics hardware. Before this, most DRM drivers were written in C. Tyr shows that Rust can be used for such system‑level code. You don’t need to write any Rust code to see the change; it is a new library that future projects can depend on. The announcement is simply a notice that the driver exists; it does not describe how to use it yet.
Run it now
// This program demonstrates the announcement of the Tyr DRM driver.
// The driver itself is not part of Rust 1.98.1, so we simply print a message.
fn main() {
println!("Tyr: a new Rust DRM driver has been announced.");
}
What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)
Tyr: a new Rust DRM driver has been announced.
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