bootloader in python.

Pedro Giffuni pfg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 1 03:41:45 UTC 2016


> Josh Triplett started out with "the punchline" for his PyCon 2015 talk
> on porting Python to run without an operating system: he and his Intel
> colleagues got the interpreter to run in the GRUB boot loader for either
> BIOS or EFI systems. But that didn't spoil the rest of the talk by any
> means. He had plenty of interesting things to say and a number of
> eye-opening demos to show as well.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/641244/
>
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/692638/2ebf68539c678a33/
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> -Alfred
Hmm ...

Not completely unrelated, there was a Lua GSoC but I guess we could also 
have a 64k python as an alternative to forth in the bootloader as well:

http://www.tinypy.org/

Cheers,

Pedro.




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