On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 08:41:00PM -0400, Daniel P. Smith wrote: > On 5/15/23 17:22, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > What if I don't use grub, but use something that behaves equivalently? > > Which value should be used here? > > Generally we would request that the bootloader submit a request to register > for a value to be reserved in the spec. That aside, the intent here is to > allow for the possibility for the DLE handler to be independent from the > bootloader, but this does not have to be this way. If a non-open entity > decides to produce their own implementation, they can freely use a > unallocated value at their own risk that it could be allocated to another > bootloader in the future. Though in this scenario it likely would not matter > as the non-open DLE handler would only be present when the non-open > bootloader was present. Is the expectation that the DLE will always be shipped with the bootloader? I think I'm not entirely clear on what's consuming this and why.
