Lua in the bootloader

Rui Paulo rpaulo at felyko.com
Mon Aug 25 06:51:04 UTC 2014


On Aug 24, 2014, at 23:27, Jordan Hubbard <jkh at ixsystems.com> wrote:
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> Again, no disagreement, though I do wonder how many Lua programmers FreeBSD has that will be able to hit the ground running as a result of this evolution.  Anyone?  Raise your hands!   I can’t raise mine - I’ve never used Lua. :)

Clearly it's somewhat popular since this isn't the first GSoC project with the object of integrating Lua with the boot loader.

NetBSD even tried to integrate Lua with kernel scripting, correctly calling it Lunatik. :-)

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Rui Paulo





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