On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:46 PM Damian Ivanov <damianator...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> This proposal was soundly rejected, so don't worry about it. > > > > That's great news. Thank you! > I am not thrilled that this has been rejected since efi support is not > so good on Fedora. > Devices that are BIOS can IIRC still use efi using a boot tool > installed to the MBR which emulates EFI > and than loads the EFI loader. This would be a one time step.
I believe EFI emulation would be too big to fit in the 446 bytes available in the MBR, so one would need a biosboot partition for that EFI emulator, but the other issue (as I recall) was that the EFI emulation had been using IP that may not be appropriately "free" (fat32?). Perhaps now that that IP has been contributed to OIN (and the various legal reviews and processes for Fedora to properly utilize those patents are complete) there may be a future path forward (if someone is so motivated). _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
