Meeting 2026-10-20

[adamgreig]

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[jannic]

I think rust-embedded/cortex-m#696 warrants some discussion. (Less the MR itself, but the underlying assumptions about linker file internals):

Is there a stable way for projects using cortex-m-rt to insert own sections into the default linker file via INSERT AFTER?
What if the added section should be the last thing to be put in flash?
The previously working INSERT AFTER .uninit was broken by rust-embedded/cortex-m#578.

[adamgreig]

We discussed this in the meeting and the comments were:

• we could do with documenting what we actually rely on the linker script providing, so that users with their own linker script have a documented interface they can provide to prevent breakage with new versions of c-m-rt
• we could add some hooks specifically designed for putting user-defined sections in flash/ram
• this specific breakage in embassy-rp wasn't a "breaking change" because it relied on undocumented linker script details, but ideally we'd document what other crates can rely on to prevent this sort of problem

[jannic]

Should default branches still named master be renamed to main?
rust-embedded/cortex-m#700

[sgued]

Updated LLM policy

#944

[adamgreig]

• We should get a new cortex-m release out ASAP with the asm nomem fixes from remove nomem, add fences cortex-m#699