On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 12:06 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: >> == Scope == >> * Proposal owners: >> ** Generate BLS snippets at kernel build time and ship in the kernel packages. >> ** Make kernel-install scripts to copy the BLS, kernel and initramfs >> images and do any architecture specific task. >> ** Make GRUB 2, zipl and Petitboot bootloaders to populate their boot >> menu entries from the information in BLS files. >> ** Have a grubby wrapper for backward compatbility that manipulates BLS files. >> ** Modify packages that use grubby to instead install BLS fragments >> (memtest86+, tuned). >> ** Make sure this is all properly documented in release-notes, etc. > > What exactly is the plan for upgrades, here? "users upgrading from a previous version of Fedora will keep the old behaviour. " https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault#Upgrade.2Fcompatibility_impact I'm on the fence whether I think it's better to support two bootloader configurations, or compel upgrades to use the new method at some point and when, rather than having a community with multiple personalities confusion. The cited BLS spec is the original one, not the more thoroughly discussed and thought through variant by Matthew Garrett [1] some years ago. What are we getting from the cited spec? All of it? Are there exceptions? Where are the exceptions written? The cited BLS spec requires $BOOT be VFAT, are we doing that? The cited BLS spec requires kernels and initramfs go on $BOOT, are we doing that? Are we going to stop doing the diabolical (and widespread) nested mount nonsense, e.g. /boot/efi? Are we getting rid of the persistent mounting of these volumes in favor of mounting/unmounting dynamically only by the programs that are authorized to make changes to these volumes? If there's no room on the EFI System partition for all of this, will we following bullets 2 and 5 of the BLS spec under "The installer program should pick $BOOT according to the following rules"? Or are we doing something else and if so where is that written? [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/T46EEAOVHFAYLG25Q2R66M6EEXBVWAHQ/
