[syslinux] Antw: Re: merging lua branch

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Marcel Ritter wrote:

>>>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> schrieb am 10/7/2009 um 10:39 PM in Nachricht
> <4ACCFC89.9040604 at zytor.com>:
>> On 10/07/2009 10:51 AM, Erwan wrote:
>>> Marcel Ritter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to see lua included in mainline syslinux: it's been there in a
>>>> (mostly unknown) git branch for quite some time now, and I hope
>>>> releasing it to a wider public will increase its user base and speed
>>>> up development.
>>>
>>> I'm backing that position. We've been expecting the lua feature for a
>>> long time and starting playing with it would be nice.
>>> It could be nice to see use cases and tracking bugs in it.
>>
>> However, the Lua work should be a nicely self-contained project for
>> anyone who wants to work on it (as already evidenced by the fact that I
>> didn't do the Lua port in the first place), so if anyone has the cycles
>> to work on it, please do so.
>>
>> I'm willing to merge Lua into mainline as soon as there is a real-life
>> usecase for it.
>
> Would you consider the following scenario a use case?
>
> Let's use DMI functions to get the boards vendor/type and the
> current BIOS version. Depending on this information call the
> appropriate BIOS update boot floppy (via memdisk) ...
> (s. com32/lua/test/dmi.lua)

Yes please :-)

Or simply add certain boot parameters based on hardware/type.

That's what we needed in the past (the feature is currently not needed, 
but may be reintroduce when new hardware arrives requiring old kernels).

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