Re: Lua on Atmel's AVR Microcontrollers

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

I have looked into putting Lua into a lot of different microcontrollers 
but most controllers fails on the memory part. You need ltos of memory 
(for a microcontroller) and you need full a malloc implementation. take 
a look at the uClinux - My guess is, if a microcontroller can run 
uClinux it would run Lua also..

But the ATmega128 has only 4 Kb RAM so there is ny chance of Lua running 
on it....

/Erik

Harald Kipp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we developed a tiny Open Source RTOS with TCP stack
> for the ATmega128 uC and I recently investigated the
> possibility to use Lua scripts for configuring the
> hardware dependent parts of the system.
>
> This "configurator" runs on the PC and uses wxWidgets
> for the GUI to support most common platforms. Not yet
> finished, but Lua was indeed the right choice. I'm now
> making up my mind, wether Lua would make a good
> scripting language for the target itself.
>
> Has anybody tried to run Lua on an AVR uC or any
> similar 8-bit system? Is there any port already
> available? Any Open Source would be great as long
> as it fits to the BSD- or Lua-style licence.
>
> I'm sorry, if this had been answered recently, but
> I tried hard to find a reference.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Harald Kipp