On 14.4.2022 22:24, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
On 4/14/22 23:49, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
On 14.4.2022 18:20, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
Given there is consensus that legacy BIOS is on its way out
I don't think this statement is true, unless Fedora doesn't want to be
considered for a bunch of popular VM hosts (e.g. Linode and such) that
have no stated plans to support UEFI.
Maybe "legacy BIOS on physical hardware" is on its way out
It's not an maybe, it is on it's way out either physically or simply
via firmware update [1]
"In the bios, upgraded to 810 the option to enable legacy boot is
greyed out"
So how do people propose the situation to be handled when firmware
from vendors, disables the legacy boot option via firmware update.
Is Fedora supposed to block/blacklist those firmware updates via some
plugin in lvfs based on user feedback when their legacy boot mode
suddenly stops working or is it expected that upstream lvfs team
looks into this or what?
Fedora doesn't install these updates. Users install these updates,
when they have a problem
In the past they did, today users ( including the novice ones ) update
it as Gnome notifies them about available update just like they do when
they receive anyother software update notification.
And besides, non-UEFI systems don't normally receive BIOS updates that
break legacy boot, because legacy boot is the only boot option
available, so what is your point, exactly?
Obviously this was for dual bios mode ( legacy and uefi ) ( otherwise
the option to disable it would not be there ) in which the vendor
himself seemingly decided to disable the legacy part of the bios via
firmware update which highlight the fact that we somehow need to deal
with that situation if we want to continue to support the legacy bios
option.
How I have no clue, which is why I pointed at an potential lvfs plugin
or the lvfs team.
JBG
_______________________________________________
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
