Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

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On Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:56:03 PM MST Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 02:00:16PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> > If it doesn't have any reported CVEs, that's because nobody uses it.
> 
> You may be right, but one can't have vulnerabilies in functionality that
> doesn't exist.
> 
> (I find it hilarious that "small, simple, single-purpose" is suddenly a
>  bad thing when it's in systemd's favor..)

It's a bad thing when it can't boot Fedora systems. A bootloader's job is to 
load the kernel and initramfs, then execute. If it can't do that, it's not 
usable.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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