[syslinux] VPD information, macros and syslinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> My preference would go for the second. Imagine we have some sort of lua 
> scripting language integrated and we could instead of providing a 
> config-file, provide a lua-script that outputs a config-file.
> 
> Using a general purpose language allows to test those scripts on a normal 
> system. But it also allows to create functions to do more advanced things 
> like get DMI/VPD information and use that when generating the boot labels.
> 
> In a later stadium we could even allow inline lua-scripts inside the 
> config-file (although I don't really see how that would be useful atm).
> 
> What do people think ?

Well, a lot of work in this area has already been done; we have a number 
of query libraries, and we have a Lua interpreter.  The main thing is 
for someone to spend the time and put them together.

	-hpa