Accessing Hardware in Rust

This is a collection of code examples to accompany the blog post of the same name at https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/hardware-access-rust/.

There are four examples here:

• tock-registers-example - an example using tock-registers
• svd2rust-example - an example using svd2rust
• derive-mmio-example - an example using derive-mmio and bitbybit
• safe-mmio-example - an example using safe-mmio and bitflags

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