Syslinux - Jul 2008 - [GIT] Lua running as a com32 syslinux module

Hi.

If anyone is interested, here is a working prototype:

http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/xl0/syslinux-lua.git;a=summary

Os, io and math libraries are not compiled right now. Also, there are
no bindings for any syslinux functions. Otherwise, everything should
work just fine, like

ISOLINUX 3.71 pre14-14-g8b9b72a*  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot: lua.c32
Lua 5.1.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print("Hello, World!")
Hello, World!
> f()
stdin:1: attempt to call global 'f' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
        stdin:1: in main chunk
        [C]: ?
> c1 = coroutine.create(function () while true do print "A"
coroutine.yield() end end)
> c2 = coroutine.create(function () while true do print "B"
coroutine.yield() end end)
> while true do coroutine.resume(c1) coroutine.resume(c2) end
A
B
A
B
A
....

I've got no plans working on this stuff in the foreseeable future, so,
if you've got an idea how this might be useful,.. you know how
git-clone works. ;)

Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> 
> I've got no plans working on this stuff in the foreseeable future, so,
> if you've got an idea how this might be useful,.. you know how
> git-clone works. ;)
> 
Obviously, I think this would be wonderful as the long-discussed 
scripting facility.

	-hpa

Hi! 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:38 AM
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] [GIT] Lua running as a com32 syslinux module
> 
> Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> > 
> > I've got no plans working on this stuff in the foreseeable 
> future, so, 
> > if you've got an idea how this might be useful,.. you know how 
> > git-clone works. ;)
> > 
> 
> Obviously, I think this would be wonderful as the 
> long-discussed scripting facility.
Once this is usable, I would really like to work on it (even bought the book
on Lua and all)

Gotta test that git thing then :)
> 
> 	-hpa
Luis Correia