Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 7:14 AM John Boero <boeroboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I can fully understand why this would be done. As per the original >> discussion when Peter Robinson mentioned a Spin to deprecate BIOS, >> would anybody else be interested in helping with a Spin for legacy >> BIOS support? I agree with the e-waste comments and it seems a shame >> to trash some perfectly viable kiosks or old IoT which gave new life >> to old kit. I just got done knocking Windows 11 for deprecating >> support for fairly new hardware but now realize Fedora is doing >> something similar (though not as drastic). Is a spin worth >> exploring? Volunteers welcome. > > The pull request to delete the code for BIOS support in lorax means > that we can't produce media with BIOS support at all once that's > merged. They've tied dropping syslinux to dropping BIOS support > entirely. It is also unclear that they'd take a contribution to rewire > lorax to produce media with BIOS support using GRUB like we do for > UEFI. We're right here - you can just ask. Brian's PR is to implement the change as written. If the project decided to go in the direction of a spin, that would be something other than what the change proposes, and the PR wouldn't be appropriate. Be well, --Robbie
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