Discussing the Boot Loader Spec

[nico.h@xxxxxx (Nico Huber)]

Hi Lennart,

thanks for the immediate response.

On 21.06.2018 17:08, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

I feared that. Last time I tried to register at Github, I failed to
agree with their terms. It's been some years, I'll reconsider it.

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

Figured that so far and on a second attempt, I succeeded to subscribe
it seems.

Nico