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Re: Importing lua(4), but where in the source tree?



Am 12.01.2013 um 21:15 schrieb Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>:

> Hi,
> 
> From: Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>, Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:11:38 
> +0100
> 
>> 
>> I want to import the lua(4) device driver, which is currently a module only, 
>> which seems wrong.
>> 
>> Is sys/dev/lua/ a good place?
> 
> Nowadays I am playing with lua in userland.
> 
> Current lua in base userland is 5.1.5 and it seems that it lacks bitwise
> operation commands.
> According to Lua website, newer 5.2 have bitwise operations, bit32.band etc.
> 
> What version of Lua will be imported?
> I have no idea about kernel manner, but I think Lua 5.2 is preferable
> for kernel use, because bitwise operations are more important in kernel.

For the time being it is Lua 5.1.4 (and that is already in the tree, so Lua 
does not get imported, it just gets used in the kernel as well).  Once all is 
in place I will start to update everything to Lua 5.2.

Does that sound OK to you?

- Marc



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