On 30.6.2020 17:49, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 6:34:27 AM MST Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
wrote:
> Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream changes
> it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop supporting
> booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only supported boot which
> has been available on any common intel based x86 platform since atleast
> 2005.
This is simply false. I'm currently writing this email on a ThinkPad X200
Tablet, which does not support UEFI. I can get dropping x86 support, but
dropping BIOS boot support?
Such proposal would never be about stop supporting older hardware that's
just a misconception people are getting
And it's quite evident by the response here that hw that is atleast 2010
and older is still quite happily being used and that hw does not support
UEFI and no one is talking about taking that away anytime soon.
The first step ( The actual change proposal ) would simply be about
replace grub2 with sd-boot for UEFI strictly on the x86 architecture
which has UEFI available and enabled ( is not using legacy bios ) and
see what issue are encountered, solve those then consider moving to
different architectures and further integration if relevant etc. ( baby
steps ) Next I would suggest looking at UEFI supported ARM systems ( but
I personally would have to obtain such hardware before doing so ).
JBG