On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Neal Gompa wrote: > To be absolutely clear, I completely agree with everything here. > However, with GRUB being completely dysfunctional upstream and all the > pressure from everyone else basically doing nothing, I don't know what > else we're supposed to do. Outside of Fedora, I help maintain GRUB for > other distributions, and I wound up having no choice but to use the > Red Hat tree to get *any* maintained improvements. If there was any > light at the end of the tunnel, I would say my own suggestion is > completely ridiculous. > > However, the *major* reason for my suggestion to use the Red Hat tree > is that the Btrfs driver has the SUSE patches to be able to read and > boot from subvolumes, which are not upstream.
I am sorry, but if some folks decide to run kind of a GRUB2 fork, then please do it either properly (e.g. by calling it an official fork and a separate project that might attract other projects as GRUB2 alternative), or get the changes into upstream. Staying close to upstream is a Fedora goal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects As long as EfiFs upstream only supports a non-forked GRUB2, I won't change my package except when being forced officially by FESCo to do so (in that case I will consider orphaning the package). Anyway, as long as systemd-boot upstream does not seem to care much about whether vfat XBOOTLDR is working at all (even an EfiFs driver is loaded by UEFI itself; their own internal UEFI driver loader is not yet implemented), a discussion about EfiFs using the Red Hat GRUB2 fork is IMHO unnecessary. Regards, Robert
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