The rust team takes care of Rust Programming Language and Rust-related ports and packages.

• lang/rust tracks Rust Stable and is updated every 6 weeks. It uses lang/rust-bootstrap to bootstrap.

• lang/rust-nightly tracks Rust Nightly and is updated weekly. It uses prebuilt bootstraps provided by upstream, which are currently limited to amd64 and i386 architectures.
• lang/rust-bootstrap creates cross-compiled bootstraps for all supported architectures which are later used to build lang/rust.
• Cargo integration is available in the ports framework via USES=cargo (Mk/Uses/cargo.mk)

We currently maintain lang/rust for the following architecture and release combinations:

• FreeBSD 11.4+ for i386, amd64, armv6
• FreeBSD 12.1+ additionally for: armv7, aarch64 (arm64) ¹⁾, powerpc64 ELFv1 ²⁾
• FreeBSD 13.0+ additionally for: powerpc64 Big Endian ELFv2, powerpc64 Little Endian ELFv2, riscv64 ³⁾

JohannesLundberg created a RustKPI FreeBSD Kernel Module) and e1000 Rust FreeBSD Network Driver example and Hello World Example as part of his Masters Thesis on Safe Kernel Programming with Rust (2018, PDF).

AnatolUlrich ⁴⁾ wrote a Hello world FreeBSD kernel module in Rust (github.com, 2021)

In August 2022, DavidYoung of NCCGroup posted a Writing FreeBSD Kernel Modules in Rust research article and accompanying BSD-Licensed code repository, based on JohannesLundberg's original work, updated to target Rust 2021

• TobiasKortkamp
• PiotrKubaj
• MikaelUrankar

• Email: rust@FreeBSD.org
• Bug Reports & Feature Requests via Bugzilla. Open Rust issues
• Patches & Pull Requests via Phabricator (add #rust as reviewer).

• Ports using lang/rust
• Porter's Handbook chapter on how to port Cargo based applications