On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Samuel Greear <l...@evilcode.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Lourival Vieira Neto > <lourival.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm glad to announce the results of my GSoC project this year [1]. >> We've created the support for scripting the NetBSD kernel with Lua, >> which we called Lunatik and it is composed by a port of the Lua >> interpreter to the kernel, a kernel programming interface for >> extending subsystems and a user-space interface for loading user >> scripts into the kernel. You can see more details on [2]. I am >> currently working on the improvement of its implementation, on the >> documentation and on the integration between Lunatik and other >> subsystems, such as npf(9), to provide a real usage scenario. >> >> I'd like to take this space also to publicly thank Marc Balmer, for >> his kind support; prof. Roberto Ierusalimschy, for his comprehension >> and support; and NetBSD developers for their prompt help. >> >> [1] >> http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/netbsd/t127230760748 >> [2] http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/ >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Lourival Vieira Neto >> >> > > I eagerly waited to see the results of this project all summer, I did > peruse the code as soon as you put it up on the google code hosting > site. > > My brief notes (from memory): > > I didn't see any bindings, maybe there were some, but if I missed them > there can't be very many, Lua in the kernel is fairly useless unless > you can call into the public kernel api. > > I didn't like the fact that the only option for loading a script into > the kernel was to load the script source. I would make loading > pre-compiled scripts the preferential method. In fact, I would > probably tear eval out of the kernel lua implementation and only > support loading of precompiled byte-code into the kernel. > > I hope you continue working on this, I see potential and at some point > I would like to evaluate this for inclusion in DragonFly BSD. > > Best, > Sam >
Folks, The message above was sent both for tech-kern and Lua mailing lists and we had valuable considerations about loading pre-compiled scripts there. If want to keep track, here is the archive [http://marc.info/?t=128631400200001&r=1&w=2]. Cheers, -- Lourival Vieira Neto