Marius Schwarz writes:
Am 30.06.20 um 15:34 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream changes it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop supporting booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only supported boot which has been available on any common intel based x86 platform since atleast 2005.Now in 2017 Intel's technical marketing engineer Brian Richardson revealed in a presentation that the company will require UEFI Class 3 and above as in it would remove legacy BIOS support from its client and datacenter platforms by 2020 and one might expect AMD to follow Intel in this regard.This will fail i.e. on M$ Surface Pro * systems.Also, a lot of laptops are installed in Legacy Mode, as setting them up in EFI was impossible.
I have two servers that predate 2005. They've been running Fedora just fine since then, with no problems whatsoever. Back then, server-level hardware was built to last. I know that at least one of them does not support EFI.
It a shame if Fedora were to abandon its long-time users. This proposal was already brough up earlier this year and was described as a non-starter back then. I haven't paid attention and I hope this is still a non-starter; otherwise, as I said, it will be a shame.
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