[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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