Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El jue, 14-06-2018 a las 12:06 +0200, Jan Kurik escribió:
>> = Proposed System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault

[snip]

>> Fedora already has a lot of infrastructure in place to not require
>> modifying bootloader configuration files for boot menu entries. The
>> BootLoaderSpec and drop-in BLS fragments can be used instead, and the
>> kernel-install script can do any additional task that is currently
>> done by grubby. The kernel-install script has a pluggable design that
>> uses a drop-in directory for scripts to extend its functionality. So
>> if needed, any bootloader specific logic can be implemented as
>> kernel-install scripts.
>> With this setup the bootloader configuration could be static and not
>> modified after installation.
>> The missing piece was the lack of BLS support on all the supported
>> bootloaders, but all of them have support to parse BLS fragments now.
>> So we can default to install BLS files on kernel installation and
>> drop
>> grubby.
>
> There is no BLS support in u-boot, how is it planned to support ARM
> systems? it is not an issue for aarch64 systems using u-boot as they
> use the efi implementation and load grub2, that is not true on 32 bit
> arm at all.
>

I talked with Peter Robinson (on cc) and the plan is to do the same
for ARMv7 in Fedora 29.

> Dennis
>

Best regards,
Javier
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