[syslinux] Antw: Re: merging lua branch
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 14 16:43:53 PDT 2009
On 10/14/2009 12:24 AM, Marcel Ritter wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> Or this one (though quite useless, it looks quite nice): Let's use
> lua to make your PC work as a digital photo frame (loading new
> pictures every few seconds (and display some text).
> (s. com32/lua/test/vesa.lua)
>
I consider both of these extremely valid use cases.
Great to hear you're working on this.
As far as documentation is concerned... what I would *really* like is to
move all the Syslinux documentation to asciidoc.
-hpa
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