[syslinux] Merge LUA branch of Marcel Ritter

Gert Hulselmans gerth at zytor.com
Mon Jul 5 15:11:17 PDT 2010


Gert Hulselmans wrote:
> Since Syslinux 4.01-pre2, lua is the master branch. This lua.c32 moudule
> doesn't support much.
>
> There is a much recent lua.c32, made by Marcel Ritter's:
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-October/013383.html
>
>
> The last time he wrote about the state of his lua branch:
> ============================================================
> The current state is:
>
> - VESA:
>   - switching to vesa mode works
>   - loading/displaying images works
>   - display text works
>     (s. com32/lua/test/vesa.lua)
>
> - PCI:
>   - list PC devices + ID
>   - get human-readable device name for device
>    (s. com32/lua/test/pci.lua)
>
> - DMI:
>   - get DMI info (BIOS, Hardware, etc).
>   (s. com32/lua/test/dmi.lua)
>
> - syslinux:
>   - loading files, kernel, initrd
>   - start kernel, initrd, local boot
>   ... just working on this, so no example lua file right now
> ============================================================
>
> For now -Wno-error is enabled for building lua.c32.
> All warnings should be fixed at some point, but it compiles and works at
> least.
>
> You can get it from:
> http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/gerth/syslinux.git;a=commit;h=cbc883c3fed2423d772b11cf2006bbb91ba512ca
>
> - Gert Hulselmans

This newer lua.c32 is now in the master branch of Syslinux.

- Gert Hulselmans




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