On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:34 AM Javier Martinez Canillas
<jav...@dowhile0.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:49 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >
> > I glossed over the fact upgrades to Fedora 30 will be converted to the
> > "bls way" of things. So I want to be sure I understand feature scope:
> >
> > - all Fedora 30 editions and spins and archs, *except* 32-bit ARM
>
> Yes, because for ARMv7 we are still booting from u-boot directly, so
> it needs the old grubby tool to update the extlinux.conf that's used
> by u-boot.

Correct.

> There's a plan to use the u-boot uEFI stub to chain-load grub2 as it's
> already done for aarch64 boards AFAIK. If that's the case we could
> also use BLS for ARMv7.

Yes aarch64 uses UEFI/grub2 exclusively.

> The Changes wiki page for that feature says that it's targeted for
> F30, but AFAIU it probably won't happen in time and we will have to
> keep a non-BLS configuration for ARMv7 in F30.

We're almost there, I'm in the trying to smash all the bugs out of it
phase, but you're correct we do need a fallback :-/

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7
>
> > - new Fedora 30 installations, and upgrades of Fedora 28 and 29 to Fedora 30
>
> Correct. Although I would just say upgrades from F29 to F30. Or can
> you skip a release when doing a system upgrade?
>
> > - does not apply to install media (right now I'm seeing install media
> > still contains monolithic grub.conf, grub.cfg and isolinux.cfg that
> > have all menu entries)
> >
>
> Yes, I'm not that familiar with how the install media is created and
> its boot configuration. But I think that BLS makes less sense there
> since the menu entries will always be a static configuration anyways.
>
> > Thanks,
> > ---
> > Chris Murphy
>
> Best regards,
> Javier
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