-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 13:34 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream > changes > it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop supporting > booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only supported boot > which > has been available on any common intel based x86 platform since > atleast > 2005. > > Now in 2017 Intel's technical marketing engineer Brian Richardson > revealed in a presentation that the company will require UEFI Class 3 > and above as in it would remove legacy BIOS support from its client > and > datacenter platforms by 2020 and one might expect AMD to follow Intel > in > this regard. > > So Intel platforms produced this year presumably will be unable > to run > 32-bit operating systems, unable to use related software (at least > natively), and unable to use older hardware, such as RAID HBAs (and > therefore older hard drives that are connected to those HBAs), > network > cards, and even graphics cards that lack UEFI-compatible vBIOS > (launched > before 2012 – 2013) etc. > > This post is just to gather feed back why Fedora should still > continue > to support legacy BIOS boot as opposed to stop supporting it and > potentially drop grub2 and use sd-boot instead. > > Share your thoughts and comments on how such move might affect you so > feedback can be collected for the future on why such a change might > be > bad, how it might affect the distribution and scope of such change > can > be determined for potential system wide proposal.
I think there are many people still install OS in the legacy mode, but I don't really have numbers. One thing we should definitely do if we deprecate legacy BIOS is to properly warn users that still use this configuration, develop tooling for them if possible for migration and do not allow upgrades that will simply break their system. > > Regards > > Jóhann B. > > > 1. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CleanupGnomeHiddenBootMenuIntegration > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org - -- Igor Raits <ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEcwgJ58gsbV5f5dMcEV1auJxcHh4FAl77RJkACgkQEV1auJxc Hh4+4A//QC8EWxecyBbSWu8uo2dSlFgqcCJ4zn6fkpgsU1PPhcezTPNKBFYdXUag QMN5d6fawQE7LWRMY6y1Gq4oyANPQyJVshUeOcOBkyDpnZN13uCJSLDXpmHifpOJ Up27VxVjYRb4kkPyHZqiwOkJP8U/4NfKeWkfew5CFGufKjX1dQVS8CeNWgpl1YsM aTTLd5CvzDiMN4GBoaSRZmI9YDbrQbElqrk6BZD1wAIVnBbpvCq8wUJFRKIcx6O1 gMxpGV9txZ2HLKqmUYRtQUl5+CKTS45vJszGdlWPPqjiGpgGEDtsAqCPfWiyHUAc 0FZYdYHt3a1/jmNH0WRS2UOmeu5FP8VUOUvywVn3e4A5Dbi3Bdv2xuOGPD+xyti6 TAE3bWnYE1i7T1N6xoD90z2w+iQLFi12ftA7wkajNjf4e0MaawRBKuiG9VhL2xUA vCDFaL/tqSQDPkWlrQblUjpJEOZOrtxQl48iMTNWmo92AtmuuARNwSsXNxEeP3GP 2DVM69j3CrGPpEBCIt4PdymHTQ2AHalUZwSAxEiT0NjwZ11uS0dAK7ipzwbUr+gt Kwt202qSB5CZWSYe+VMDDxVyHJAIjpllzejaNBnVFrtpNmAXEjTJY+0sU/JW8o37 2HXm675cbN+X8AvNXMypoVJFcGRvqvaneKn4ywqhVhrRRzc5B38= =xrlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
