resurrecting oliver fromme's graphical bootloader

[Pedro Arthur]

Hi, I had a look at your work and I saw you had to write some Forth glue
code.
I don't know if it will help you but I worked in the Lua loader Google
Summer of
code project and I have a working Lua script interpreter into the loader
with
 almost identical features found in the Forth scripts. I think writing
whatever
code you want in Lua will be much easier.

Some time ago we had a discussion about integrating the Lua loader work in
HEAD
but yet it needs some more work. If you are interested in using Lua you can
find the
svn repo and instructions in [1].


Regards,
Pedro


[1] - https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader

2015-01-31 4:07 GMT-02:00 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:

> hi all,
>
> I resurrected oliver's graphical bootloader and shuffled the VGA code
> away into sys/boot/i386/libi386vga/ .
>
> https://github.com/erikarn/freebsd/tree/adrian_loader_graphics
>
> The menu side of things needs updating and re-integration into how the
> current beastie setup path works.
>
> I'd like to get this tidied up and pushed into HEAD so it can start
> getting some more exposure. I'd also like to write a generic FB
> graphics interface so we can use it on EFI and the raspberry pi.
>
> This is highly spare time, so I'd appreciate any help people can provide.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -adrian
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