Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:14:36PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Fr, 22.06.18 13:35, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > 
> > > $BOOT being non-vfat is a fairly substantial departure from either
> > > BootLoaderSpec, the original requires $BOOT be vfat, the mjg59 version
> > > require $BOOT be firmware readable. That is not a complaint, I'm just
> > > making an observation of the consequences. I'm personally on the fence
> > > when it comes to the merit of a shared $BOOT. It sounds like a good
> > > idea, but maybe it's specious?
> > 
> > BTW, I think we should actually relax the wording in the spec, and
> > move towards matthew's version on this: instead of saying "must be
> > vfat" to say "must be firmware readable" essentially means the same,
> > but is friendlier towards MacOS of course.

FTR, this got added in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/7f1fc7c6d4.

> Would also allow "we drop a ext2.efi driver to BSP to access $BOOT"
> I guess?

That'd be pretty cool. Is there a widely accepted driver?
Google yields this:
https://efi.akeo.ie/
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Tasks-ext2-file-system-driver

Zbyszek
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