Re: Would it be useful to have a video call to discuss the "Deprecate Legacy BIOS" Change proposal?

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:45 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> > As the Source0 provider for the packages and then next to:
> >
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2
> >
> > Add a:
> >
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2-bios
> >
> > And moving the build of all sub-packages which are
> > only necessary for BIOS support to the second src.rpm.
> >
> > This way the Legacy BIOS SIG could maintain
> > the grub2-bios src.rpm (and binary pkgs it builds).
>
> Would it not make more sense to rename the locked down grub2 SRPM that will
> become UEFI only to grub2-efi and let grub2 be the BIOS one, to match the
> naming of the binary RPMs (which are already split)?
>

The binary RPM for grub's BIOS boot code is grub2-pc (and
grub2-pc-modules), not grub2. But "grub2-pc" is not particularly
descriptive as a source package name, so grub2-bios makes sense for
the source package name if we need to split it.



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