On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:15 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BiggerESP > > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive > community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved > by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. > > == Summary == > > The Fedora installer includes an EFI System Partition of between 200MB > and 600MB by default, of which the lower size is much too small for > firmware updates on modern hardware and also for future bootloader > features like UKI. > This change will increase the minimum size of the ESP to be 500MB, > which is also the same value used by Microsoft for Windows 10 and > newer.
While I believe this to be low impact I do believe it should be a system wide change as it impacts all aarch64 and basically all the x86_64 we actively care about. > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:rhughes| Richard Hughes]] > * Email: rich...@hughsie.com > > > == Detailed Description == > > Modern hardware has UEFI firmware updates that are more than 64MB in > size. The OEMs recommend a ESP free space of double the flash size > plus 20MB and fwupd now enforces this requirement to ensure flash > success. As the ESP is often shared between Windows and Linux, and > also used for firmware updates, and soon to be used by UKIs it's not > enough to just allocate a few hundreds of megabytes. Windows 10 and 11 > allocates an ESP of at least 500MiB. Arch also specifies a minimum of > 512 MiB. > > == Feedback == > > There is no alternative -- the ESP has to scale up if we want firmware > updates to continue to work and to support UKIs for next-generation > bootloaders. > > == Benefit to Fedora == > > Firmware updates will work on future hardware, and we can boot the > kernel using UKIs using next-generation bootloaders. > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: > > We need to change a number in Anaconda: > https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/4711 > > == Upgrade/compatibility impact == > > We can't grow the ESP in size, and so this change will only affect new > installs. This is fine, as this will affect new hardware more than old > hardware. > > == How To Test == > > Install Fedora and observe that /boot/efi has at least 276MB free > space, even when installed alongside Windows. > > == Dependencies == > > Anaconda would need to be modified, and Fedora would have a / or /home > partition that's ~300MB smaller by default than it is now. > > == Contingency Plan == > > * Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a > System Wide Change) > * Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > * Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), No > > == Documentation == > > N/A (not a System Wide Change) > > == Release Notes == > > Fedora now defaults to a larger EFI System Partition which allows > firmware updates to work on newer hardware, and allows future > bootloader and kernel modernizations. > > > -- > Ben Cotton > He / Him / His > Fedora Program Manager > Red Hat > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
