From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Fri Mar 3 14:58:10 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80DCCF62A3 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nm30-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm30-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B2B61290 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1488553083; bh=ydC1J47R+Zh6/Saxds5P+UKN5UNzIjeQwrV0L1DJWho=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=fXX4MrSpbCpZ/hIlW/+pwRxfbGQ0cx0rJOefby2FdCO/wmBGmlOvt0MFHSRNNjGD342WfCKoVM8smTZBnBXrTo7lDSulK2Wyd8AKtz+L38KWvmHQudIegRYrbHp/pXsDvwxBfetH4Q/qlHxP0a3wqjIAs2M4wTN3l2TbwFzoSoon127zfhUC4J7eDWkoep81GHh2P8bdWeDhGQxh8OKE+RpuzIo5yDsIoESizuGQ9F0vtXllgF+Vq8Ja4k6NX1tnOSN4dS2WdzTNu5EMqlwm2sDe+zVUBnlUVg+MJxLPEUn/JwQ2UtLhnIVpQI1zVgao8D+PAVOGeWKJlNox1KuEeg== Received: from [98.138.100.111] by nm30.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2017 14:58:03 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.114] by tm100.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2017 14:58:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp223.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Mar 2017 14:58:03 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 52321.93541.bm@smtp223.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 6c.KQJkVM1lRLU1br1iNRoCMbW.y49wwcuFfVJPLkbrFd5X 04QzWi5OPm5fvuiolMpeT4PTpQl1YPuh133JIBRhd1SHIsJlHyUgQFbw4iAJ LY8XIpX.VunOFgKiJ_X_AEC07_zzP7UPTnjtz4lrbqtK0zmYg5XFbh_Mh9Lg zKITrdJtYzHW1RYHvp1qMPLWP77VF0dAeCI76DtAxbSKnq_rUKiUu9J8fmfj .qrHRxiuHgicSjvg4AZ.XQ09ykiP4zw3jWnw9.ZcpzY9fND5i7QiMSDcRYrG _kjuSvjA_cFVssFTev5BCxQSjybJNk51cRTVWw5nvqzMHc5J6mQXggwqS0kd SJDjiPSbF92JAX.sJ1uYtfzdysyn7VIlBDkjQdZkwswddVSxBkCr0pFQzk5x cIZd8rPPccs4EG2tXahdwliFLC4PzSY.mqMvbQw4NmT4ELcCotLN2ERTjXwP 7nuzlCqW2KxWnUM.Kn5hR6eeX.Oc1nh4QX8nRt8_yF8ZA.eEg31SryDv4Gqz Pny8lMGD8Y7MoRB34Mz6q.Qh.9A65HkxJbNe6GrvkYVNIX7o- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Subject: Re: [GSoC 2017] Original proposal: Port kernel Lua to FreeBSD To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <2634b0e5-2ef1-87fa-27a1-9aab13f01901@FreeBSD.org> From: Pedro Giffuni Message-ID: <180dca0e-cba5-cdb9-b347-402c7df6139a@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 10:00:57 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2634b0e5-2ef1-87fa-27a1-9aab13f01901@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:58:10 -0000 (Previous attempt to post this bounced back) Concerning the bootloader, There is a tiny (64k!) version of python: http://www.tinypy.org/ So, I guess it's doable. There was also a GSoC project to update the bootloader to ficl4. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2015/clord/ The illumos bootlader already uses ficl4 BTW. Cheers, Pedro.