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+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2018 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd March 29, 2025
+.Dt CLI.LUA 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm cli.lua
+.Nd bootloader command line interpreter module
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+contains the main functionality required to add new CLI commands, which can be
+executed at the loader prompt.
+.Pp
+Before hooking into the functionality provided by
+.Nm ,
+it must be included with a statement such as the following:
+.Pp
+.Dl local cli = require("cli")
+.Ss Adding new commands
+New loader commands may be created by adding functions to the object returned by
+requiring the
+.Nm
+module.
+.Pp
+For instance:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+local cli = require("cli")
+
+cli.foo = function(...)
+ -- Expand args to command name and the rest of argv.
+ -- These arguments are pushed directly to the stack by
+ -- loader, then handed off to cli_execute. cli_execute
+ -- then passes them on to the invoked function, where
+ -- they appear as varargs that must be peeled apart into
+ -- their respective components.
+ local _, argv = cli.arguments(...)
+
+ print("This is the foo command!")
+ for k, v in ipairs(argv) do
+ print("arg #" .. tostring(k) .. ": '" .. v .. "'")
+ end
+ -- Perform a loader command directly. This will not get
+ -- dispatched back to Lua, so it is acceptable to have a
+ -- function of the exact same name in loader. Lua will
+ -- have the first chance to handle any commands executed
+ -- at the loader prompt.
+ loader.perform("foo")
+end
+.Ed
+.Pp
+This function may be invoked by a user at the loader prompt by simply typing
+.Ic foo .
+Arguments may be passed to it as usual, space-delimited.
+.Ss Default Commands
+The
+.Nm
+module provides the following default commands:
+.Bl -bullet
+.\"-width toggle-module -offset indent
+.It
+.Ic autoboot
+.It
+.Ic boot
+.It
+.Ic boot-conf
+.It
+.Ic reload-conf
+.It
+.Ic disable-device
+.It
+.Ic disable-module
+.It
+.Ic enable-module
+.It
+.Ic toggle-module
+.It
+.Ic show-module-options
+.El
+.Pp
+For
+.Ic autoboot ,
+.Ic boot ,
+and
+.Ic boot-conf ,
+the
+.Xr core.lua 8
+module will load all ELF modules as-needed before executing the equivalent
+built-in loader commands.
+All non-kernel arguments to these commands are passed in the same order to the
+loader command.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ic reload-conf
+command will reload the configuration from disk.
+This is useful if you have manually changed currdev and would like to easily
+reload the configuration from the new device.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ic enable-module ,
+.Ic disable-module ,
+and
+.Ic toggle-module
+commands manipulate the list of modules to be loaded along with the kernel.
+Modules blacklisted are considered disabled by
+.Ic toggle-module .
+These commands will override any such restriction as needed.
+The
+.Ic show-module-options
+command will dump the list of modules that loader has been made aware of and
+any applicable options using paged output.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ic disable-device
+command sets the environment variable that disables the device argument.
+.Ss Exported Functions
+The following functions are exported from
+.Nm :
+.Bl -tag -width cli.arguments -offset indent
+.It Fn cli.arguments ...
+Takes varargs passed on the stack from
+.Xr loader 8
+to
+.Ic cli_execute ,
+splits them out into two return values: the command name, traditionally argv[0],
+and the rest of argv.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
+.Xr core.lua 8 ,
+.Xr loader 8
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Nm
+file was originally written by
+.An Kyle Evans Aq Mt kevans@FreeBSD.org .