Re: Raspberry Pi and Lua

[Jo-Philipp Wich <xm@...>]

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> Like everyone else, I'm enamored with the idea of a tiny, fanless,
> $35.00 computer that can be used to do special little tasks. Trouble
> is, I can't find a special task it's capable of doing that I'd like it
> to do. It has too few NICs to be a firewall. It can't plug into a
> normal monitor (or even the old TVs we have around the house), so it
> can't be an OGG Jukebox.

Been there before, with the Marvell Sheevaplug reference board and later
the Global Scale OpenRD Client boards.

On OpenWrt we use (a patched) Lua 5.1 on 4MB flash / 16MB ram platforms
without much issues.

GPIOs are available via /sys/class/gpio/, serial port is available via
/dev/ttyS0, the rest is standard POSIX which is covered with nixio - we
don't need any special support modules there either, so I genuinely
wonder why Lua on the Rasberry Pi would need special treatment.

Or do we talk about Lua-as-OS in contrast to Lua-as-package here?


~ Jow
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