Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

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On Sunday, July 5, 2020 11:31:41 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> > Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT disk layout
> > while still booting BIOS, which they also don't do. Chromebook devices
> > either boot with uboot -> depthcharge or Coreboot -> uboot ->
> > depthcharge. I don't see how this helps your argument.
> 
> If one adds ChromeOS devices into the numbers I posted, then the
> proportion of BIOS-boot-capable, BIOS-boot-enabled, and/or BIOS-only
> devices on the market (and their portion of the total install base) goes
> down, not up.
> 
> So using the absense of chromebooks in the numbers I referenced actually
> boosts, rather than undermines, my argument.  Oh, there were supposedly
> 17 million chromebooks shipped in 2019, versus 261 million "PCs" and
> 12-ish million "servers".
> 
> ...Is this horse sufficiently dead yet?
> 
>  - Solomon

Actually, Coreboot has a SeaBIOS payload as well, so the x86_64 Chromebooks 
are "BIOS-boot-capable" systems. (Coreboot also has a GRUB payload, which is 
used by early Purism devices, before they switched to SeaBIOS, and is used by 
all x86_64 Libreboot systems).

People are still using systems from before 2019. More importantly, people are 
still using systems from 2010-2012 in Fedora, as demonstrated by this thread.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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