Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> But most things have gone GRUB2-EFI, at least in the Enterprise
> aarch64 space. Ironically it's AMD pushing it for ARM, as Intel
> dropped all ARM developments a full decade ago (all sold to Marvell).
>
> But U-Boot will still be around. But I don't know if that's pertinent for
> LPI.
IIRC LPI stipulates an Intel-based architecture for the LPIC-x exams, hence
the emphasis on Intel-based boot loaders (LPIC-2 covers not only GRUB 2 and
GRUB Legacy, but also – on the “awareness” level – LILO, ISOLINUX, and
PXELINUX).
From an abstract POV it might be interesting to cover non-Intel platforms
(especially ARM) but the risk is that this will drag in all sorts of baggage
that, while probably worthwhile for broadening candidates' horizons, is
irrelevant to many people's daily practice as well as difficult to teach,
because education providers are unlikely to have the required hardware around.
I'm saying that as somebody who just spent a quarter of an hour this morning
talking about Wifi (as per LPI-201) in a classroom that didn't have any Wifi
hardware except my own laptop and the Raspberry-Pi-with-a-USB-Wifi-dongle that
I brought in as a Linux-based Wifi access point.
If anything we will have to increase our coverage of UEFI because that is
something that people are actually likely to run into if they're not embedded-
system developers. I recently rewrote large swathes of our LPI-101 training
manuals to include UEFI and GPT (and bits from the {UEFI, BIOS} × {MBR, GPT}
Cartesian product; great fun), and I'm pretty sure there will be ramifications
on LPIC-2, too.
Anselm
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