El jue, 14-06-2018 a las 12:06 +0200, Jan Kurik escribió: > = Proposed System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault > > > Owner(s): > * Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat dot com> > * Peter Jones <pjones at redhat dot com> > > > Use BootLoaderSpec fragment files by default to populate the > bootloaders boot menu entries. > > > > == Detailed description == > The [https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ > Boot Loader Specification (BLS)] defines a scheme and file format to > manage boot loader configuration for each boot option in a drop-in > directory, without the need to manipulate bootloader configuration > files. These drop-in directories are the standard on Linux nowadays, > so the goal is to also extend this concept for boot menu entries. > This is especially important in Fedora because the same bootloader is > not used in all architectures. GRUB 2 is used in most of them, but > there are others such as zipl for s390x and Petitboot for ppc64le. > Not > all bootloaders have the same configuration file format, so there is > a > need for an indirection level and per bootloader specific logic to > edit these configuration files, when adding or removing a boot entry. > The current component that does this work is grubby, that has support > for all the different bootloader configuration file formats and > manipulates them on kernel installation or uninstallation. Besides > manipulating the bootloader configuration files, grubby also does > other things like running dracut to create an initial ramdisk image. > Fedora already has a lot of infrastructure in place to not require > modifying bootloader configuration files for boot menu entries. The > BootLoaderSpec and drop-in BLS fragments can be used instead, and the > kernel-install script can do any additional task that is currently > done by grubby. The kernel-install script has a pluggable design that > uses a drop-in directory for scripts to extend its functionality. So > if needed, any bootloader specific logic can be implemented as > kernel-install scripts. > With this setup the bootloader configuration could be static and not > modified after installation. > The missing piece was the lack of BLS support on all the supported > bootloaders, but all of them have support to parse BLS fragments now. > So we can default to install BLS files on kernel installation and > drop > grubby.
There is no BLS support in u-boot, how is it planned to support ARM systems? it is not an issue for aarch64 systems using u-boot as they use the efi implementation and load grub2, that is not true on 32 bit arm at all. Dennis > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: > ** Generate BLS snippets at kernel build time and ship in the kernel > packages. > ** Make kernel-install scripts to copy the BLS, kernel and initramfs > images and do any architecture specific task. > ** Make GRUB 2, zipl and Petitboot bootloaders to populate their boot > menu entries from the information in BLS files. > ** Have a grubby wrapper for backward compatbility that manipulates > BLS files. > ** Modify packages that use grubby to instead install BLS fragments > (memtest86+, tuned). > ** Make sure this is all properly documented in release-notes, etc. > > * Other developers: > ** The anaconda developers will need to review and merge the patches > to change the default to BLS. > ** Test and watch for regressions. > > * Release engineering: > RelEng review ticket: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7572 > > ** List of deliverables: > N/A > > * Policies and guidelines: > The policies and guidelines do not need to be updated. > > * Trademark approval: > No changes needed. > -- > Jan Kuřík > JBoss EAP Program Manager > Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelin > es > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@li > sts.fedoraproject.org/message/CTKJBECHWEVF5IN6FO5TV7SIYWIMKYRT/
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