Re: Grub2 patches in Fedora

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> What is the vision for grub2 package in Fedora versus upstream grub? The
> huge amount of patches in Fedora's grub (279 at this time) makes it
> basically a fork. And indeed many parts are incompatible with upstream
> grub, like "increment" module, or BLS, just to name a few. I know it's
> problematic when you run Fedora VM on non-fedora Xen host if you use
> pvgrub/pygrub - in that case it uses host's grub to parse guest grub.cfg
> and load the actual kernel. But I'm pretty sure there are other
> problematic cases too.
>
> Is there any specific reason why those patches are not upstream, or just
> nobody had time to do it? If the latter, can I help with this somehow?

Upstream was inactive for a long time, there are patches going
upstream now but it's a slow process.
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