[syslinux] Syslinux roadmap, revised

[Luciano Rocha]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:52:06AM +0200, Erwan Velu wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> 
> [...]
> >As such, I'm looking at revising the roadmap, and I'm partly asking for
> >input what it should look like.  One possibility is:
> >
> >Syslinux 4 - Filesystems in C, COM32R, basic interfaces to support
> >Gfxboot as COM16.
> >
> >Syslinux 5 - ELF linker, native TCP for PXELINUX, no COM16 support.
> >
> >Syslinux 6 (or 5.something) - EFI support.
> >
> >I'd like to get people's feel for the timeframes they care about these
> >features for...
> Hey Peter,
> 
> That roadmap is very interesting to read. I was just wondering if we
> could add LUA somewhere.
> LUA will allow interesting features as "hardware related booting".
> Maybe we can add it in Syslinux 5 not to load too much syslinux 4.

Oh, and maybe re-implement gfxboot as a lua script plus vesa gui
bindings... /whishfulthinking

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