On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 01:31:30PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > The BIOS provides block device access at sector level, so the boot > loader has little choice but implementing drivers for all kinds of > stuff. Or use fragile block lists like lilo did in the last century. > > With UEFI much more functionality is provided by the firmware and there > is little reason for a bootloader to have tons of drivers. With the > exception of filesystem drivers in case you want boot from something != > vfat. But even that should ideally be implemented as uefi driver not as > grub2 module. FWIW, there seem to be UEFI driver for btrfs, ZFS, XFS and others: https://efi.akeo.ie/ -- Tomasz Torcz “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wagon filled with backup tapes.” — Jim Gray _______________________________________________ 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
