Feedback on proposed loader changes

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:42:45PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
> 

I just want to say thank you to both of you!!! Can wait to be able to use lua
there!

Best regards,
Bapt
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