Feedback on proposed loader changes

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 1 February 2018 at 11:58, Devin Teske <devin at shxd.cx> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Please allow both boot systems for a while so that the lua-based menu
> can be made as feature full as the Forth menu.
>
> Zak, my co-op student from last term did a bunch of this work; it's in
> the lua-bootloader branch of https://github.com/ZakSN/freebsd. The
> work term ended before Warner's rework was ready, but it should be
> relatively straightforward to rebase it and begin review / refinement.
>

I haven't changed the .lua code at all yet from what was in the github
branch that Rui did to forward port the GSoC svn branch. I have plans for a
lot of changes (since it's lame to call perform to call setenv when we can
just directly do a setenv function call, for example).

This code looks to be mergeable, so I'll do that as a separate commit. The
non-lua bits I have to pick and choose, since there's some conflicts
though...


> I agree we should support both variants for at least some time.
>

Forth will be in 12, but not 13 is my plan. Lua will be in 12 and the
default. And thanks to Kyle Evans' heroic MFCs, there's a fighting chance
lua will be an off-by-default option in 11.2.

Warner