You may also want to read https://serverfault.com/q/137091/407952 Kind regards, Ulrich Windl > -----Original Message----- > From: systemd-devel <systemd-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On > Behalf Of Lennart Poettering > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 11:29 AM > To: Alexis Hallebarde <hallebarde@xxxxxxx> > Cc: systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [EXT] Re: bluetooth keyboard support at boot, > before cryptsetup? > > On So, 16.02.25 18:30, Alexis Hallebarde (hallebarde@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have the impression that everything for this support, is integrated but > > that it is not active by default. > > > > I want to talk about the bluetooth keyboard support at the very beginning > > of the system boot, just before entering the cryptsetup password of our > > hardrive. > > This would require support for bluez to run in the initrd. This is not > an easy ask though, since at that point there is no D-Bus, and there > is no persistency. BT pairing generally requires some kind of storage > though. > > Bluez would have to learn special support for this, i.e. store such > pairings in an EFI variable or so. > > But this is really not something we can add for you in systemd, it's > inherently something bluez has to figure out first, and which you then > need to convince the initrd maintainers to make use of. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Berlin