Discussing the Boot Loader Spec

[lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Poettering)]

On Do, 21.06.18 16:46, Nico Huber (nico.h at gmx.de) wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I just learned about the Boot Loader Specification (BLS) last week
> because of Fedora's efforts to support it in the news. Funny thing is,
> I was looking for something like this for years and surprised that it
> was there all the time ;)
> 
> I want to solve a different problem with nearly the exact same solu-
> tion: There are boot loaders that are integrated into the firmware
> that know how to access filesystems and load a kernel. And there are
> kernels that can run bare-metal (i.e. without help of BIOS or UEFI
> services). But there was never a standard how to find the kernel and
> discover its parameters. With few extensions (if any), the BLS can
> fill this gap.
> 
> But enough for the chit-chat, what I want to know for the moment is
> where the right place would be to discuss the BLS. And if there is
> no dedicated mailing list yet, should there be one?

To make contributions easier we actually added this as markdown to
systemd repo a few days ago:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/doc/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION.md

It's a slightly updated version of the old freedesktop wiki
page. Feature additions and fixes should bet be submitted as github
issue or even PR.

And there's also the systemd-devel mailing list for more general
discussions.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat