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Freebsd has used lua in its bootloader for a few years now. https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLo
by moonchild 6y ago
Freebsd has used lua in its bootloader for a few years now.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-February/068464.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Feb...
- d33 6y agoWow, it actually sounds like a very elegant idea. I always viewed GRUB as overly complex and rather unpleasant to configure. I wonder why they hadn't gone this way.
- fsfod 6y agoGrub also has an optional module run to Lua code https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/grub-extras.git/tree/lua https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/grub-extras.git/tree/lu...
- kevans91 6y agoNote that we haven't yet introduced .lua configuration capabilities (that's a project branch off to the side), but it does certainly make modifying menu entries and other fun stuff a lot more palatable in my experience.