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

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> Am 14.04.2022 um 12:57 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of it's manufacturing. ( which makes the oldest hw being support being manufactured in 2012 ) and every process,workflows and decision being bound by that.
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> Is Fedora an distribution that does not revert but always transforms, rolls out and moves forward or is it an distribution that is stuck in the past ( from a software and hardware point of view )?

Sorry, you simple didn’t get the point. It is not just about hardware. Some Cloud providers doesn’t support UEFI boot at the moment - so said various voices from Cloud WG. And some data center insist ob BIOS boot because of whatever, presumably management infrastructure. So, the hardware does or does not support UEFI, doesn’t matter in these cases.

And there is obviously some hardware around younger than 10 years that don’t support UEFI, at least not without problems.

And yes, there is some hardware older than 10 years. Currently Linux is known to support older hardware. Do we want to ditch that? 

Nevertheless, old or new hardware is not the issue.

The question is: how many users do we want to leave behind? Or: how many users must we leave behind because we can’t do the job.

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