Yes...Dropping support for BIOS will enable us to switch to systemd-boot, which is the benefit. But just out of curiosity, what is the benefit of switching from GRUB to systemd-boot. Dropping support for 32-bit x86 surely can make maintainers be free from one old platform (and less package to compile... etc.). But supporting BIOS is just work for GRUB (and anaconda, not system-wide) and when system is booted, BIOS or UEFI won't show such a significant difference, not so great work is put into this. Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> 于2020年6月30日周二 下午9:34写道： > > Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream changes > it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop supporting > booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only supported boot which > has been available on any common intel based x86 platform since atleast > 2005. > > Now in 2017 Intel's technical marketing engineer Brian Richardson > revealed in a presentation that the company will require UEFI Class 3 > and above as in it would remove legacy BIOS support from its client and > datacenter platforms by 2020 and one might expect AMD to follow Intel in > this regard. > > So Intel platforms produced this year presumably will be unable to run > 32-bit operating systems, unable to use related software (at least > natively), and unable to use older hardware, such as RAID HBAs (and > therefore older hard drives that are connected to those HBAs), network > cards, and even graphics cards that lack UEFI-compatible vBIOS (launched > before 2012 – 2013) etc. > > This post is just to gather feed back why Fedora should still continue > to support legacy BIOS boot as opposed to stop supporting it and > potentially drop grub2 and use sd-boot instead. > > Share your thoughts and comments on how such move might affect you so > feedback can be collected for the future on why such a change might be > bad, how it might affect the distribution and scope of such change can > be determined for potential system wide proposal. > > > Regards > > Jóhann B. > > > 1. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CleanupGnomeHiddenBootMenuIntegration > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
