Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:45:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46520 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504122045.t3CKjHj3004394@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Apr 12 20:45:17 2015 New Revision: 46520 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46520 Log: Add Lua boot loader report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Sun Apr 12 20:35:34 2015 (r46519) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Sun Apr 12 20:45:17 2015 (r46520) @@ -232,4 +232,81 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Lua boot loader</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Rui</given> + <common>Paulo</common> + </name> + <email>rpaulo@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Pedro</given> + <common>Souza</common> + </name> + <email>pedrosouza@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Wojciech</given> + <common>Koszek</common> + </name> + <email>wkoszek@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/lua-bootloader/" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The Lua boot loader project is in its final stage and + it can be used on x86 already. The aim of this project is to + replace the Forth boot loader with a Lua boot loader. All the + scripts were re-written in Lua and are available in + sys/boot/lua. Once all the Forth features have been tested + and once the boot menus look exactly like in Forth, we will + start merging this project to &os; HEAD. Both loaders can + co-exist in the source tree with no problems because a + pluggable loader functionality was introduced for this + purpose.</p> + + <p>The project was initially started by Wojciech + Koszek, and Pedro Souza wrote most of the Lua code last year in + his Google Summer of Code project.</p> + + <p>To build a Lua boot loader just use:</p> +<pre>WITH_LUA=y +WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Feature/appearance parity with Forth.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Investigate use of floating point by Lua.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Test the EFI Lua loader.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Test the U-Boot Lua loader.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Test the serial console.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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