>>>>> Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > == Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). My problem here is that I have real, useful hardware which has always run Fedora that I would like to continue using. But it's just old enough (purchased in 2011) and doesn't support UEFI at all. These machines are repurposed computational servers and work perfectly well to do things like provide some public Fedora mirrors. > Like the already accepted Fedora 37 change to retire ARMv7 support, > the hardware targeted tends to be rather underpowered by today’s > standards, and the world has moved on from it. I know there is this tendency to dismiss anything that's old as useless, and 20 years ago, a decade-old machine wasn't something you probably wanted to use. But the rate of progress has slowed down, and a Xeon X5670 with 96GB of memory and a pile of disk just isn't a piece of garbage. I know I'll have to toss it out eventually, but I'd hope to do that when it either fails or is actually no longer useful. I understand that this isn't going to be how the primary user experience is directed. I can deal with having to jump through hoops to get a machine installed. But it would be kind of sad if my alternatives are to use another distro or toss the stuff in the trash. (There would be a certain irony in not being able to run Fedora to provide a Fedora mirror.) For those who might be curious, the systems are Supermicro 6026TT-HTRF machines with four nodes in 2U. I have three, so twelve machines in total. The machines have X8DTT-HF+ motherboards. I actually have older hardware than that around and still in use (all Supermicro), but oddly some of it actually has an EFI option. - J< _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
