[syslinux] VPD information, macros and syslinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> But the lua interpreter would be used to dynamically create the current 
> syntax config-file ? Or would it work differently ?

More likely they'll be a Lua call looking something like:

syslinux.boot('kernel', 'parameters')

> Sadly I don't think I am qualified for that job :-/
> 
> But there are a lot of use-cases that I can write up, which could be used 
> as a set of requirements for the implementation ?

Can't hurt, but as with everything else there is an almost infinite 
amount of work to do and only so many people willing to do them.

	-hpa