Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

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> >> This proposal was soundly rejected, so don't worry about it.
> >
> > That's great news. Thank you!
> I am not thrilled that this has been rejected since efi support is not
> so good on Fedora.

How do you mean, it's supported quite well IMO with support for things
like secure boot and UEFI capsule updates for updating system firmware
I feel it's in quite good state with people improving on things
constantly.

> Devices that are BIOS can IIRC still use efi using a boot tool
> installed to the MBR which emulates EFI
> and than loads the EFI loader. This would be a one time step.

Why bother, just adds an extra layer of complexity with no added
benefits that UEFI provides.

> Hopefully Fedora will have enough resources to support systemd-boot on
> Fedora Silverblue,
> which has never worked so far due to ostree naming conventions

I see that less likely because of the need to have a already stretched
team supporting yet another boot path.

> https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1951
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