[syslinux] Lua.c32 wiki page

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Dag Wieers wrote:

> I have been experimenting a bit with lua.c32 and I have created a small 
> lua.c32 wiki page at:
>
> 	http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Lua.c32
>
> With my minimal knowledge about Lua (and the inconvenience of not being able 
> to copy&paste or edit scripts) I discovered that the dmi module has 2 
> functions (supported, gettable) and a syslinux module with 1 function 
> (run_command).
>
> Do we have some information available about these functions ? And what is 
> planned for Lua in the future, I haven't seen this discussed here ?
>
> What could be useful is:
>
>  - a way to find the boot-method (and device/name) (syslinux.bootloader,
>    syslinux.bootdevice)
>
> - a way to query syslinux information (syslinux.version, syslinux.api)
>
> - a way to provide syslinux a generated .cfg (syslinux.load())
>
> - a way to query for pci device (and match pci.ids or modules.list)
>
> - a way to query other hardware info
>
>  - an implementation of the os module, now one cannot exit lacking
>    os.exit()
>
>  - the dmi module could export its information as module variables, rather
>    than a function that exports a table
>
> For the current functionality I'd like to include some examples on the Wiki 
> page.

Before you react, please not that the above was based on lua.c32 from 4.01 
and not 4.02, sigh. So I will be updating the Wiki page on 4.02 and will 
get back to you shortly ;-)

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