This is some months old news now from November 2017, and may already be in the plans to fix, however, I'm putting this forward as I'm not aware of any existing discussions on the matter, this is only an insurance so that we're not caught un-prepared for Intel's frustrating lock-in move. I apologize if it's already being discussed internally. Nonetheless, that being the case, this post can also serve as a heads-up to others in the community to be prepared for a new extra hardware issue angle.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-were-ending-all-legacy-bios-support-by-2020/ Articles like these, seem to point towards that Intel is making a move to remove LegacyBIOS completely. This by all appearances appear like it could become a major headache for many Qubes users on new hardware in the near-term future, considering some Intel devices are already taking this step to be ready by 2020 already now. Ignoring the otherwise important issue of the locked hardware/software blobs for a moment. Not solving this boot issue on time soon, seems like it might cause a big problem for many, many existing and new Qubes users getting new expensive hardware, if something isn't done to prevent or minimize it. Hardware compatibility is already an issue, Intel's move here just seems to make it worse. What can be done to solve this? Qubes/Xen would need better UEFI support? If answers have been found, is it something that possibly can be shared with us to ease the coming worries a bit? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/e84c3d5f-1acc-4a53-9a51-fd35e64d1771%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
