On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:10:40PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 15.05.14 18:33, Matthew Garrett (mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > I'm talking about the menu in the preferences pane inside OS X. The > > spec's requirement that we use VFAT would break that. > > Well, having two ESPs, one in FAT, one in HFS+ is a blatant violation of > EFI, and not what is done when windows is installed on a mac > either... The pref panel doesn't really matter as there's a boot menu of > the firmware you can use to boot your OSes. Windows ends up with reduced access to the hardware. We do what OS X does, not what Windows does, because that's the only way to get (for example) working Thunderbolt. > > Autodiscovery makes it impossible to pass additional options to other > > bootloaders. I don't think we care that much in general, but some users > > may have requirements for it. It'd be nice to have a common format to > > express that. > > If you want to pass aditional options, then add a manual drop-in for > it. The BLS supports EFI binaries just fine. And for MBR chainloading > there isn't any sane way to pass parameters anyway... What's the objection to specifying a mechanism for chainloading? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
