On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 09:25:10AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Di, 16.12.25 10:29, Neal Gompa ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > Can the addons live outside of the ESP space? I'd rather have them in > > > /boot than in the ESP. > > > > The addons are supposed to be placed next to the UKI. sd-stub looks > > for them in a subdir named like the UKI, suffixed with > > .extra.d/. Hence, wherever you put the UKI, you can also put the extensions. > > Well, that only holds if the firmware can read the filesystem where the > UKI is stored. > > grub does not properly integrate with EFI, i.e. it brings its own set of > filesystem drivers but does not register them as EFI protocols. So on a > typical fedora install where /boot is xfs grub itself can access /boot > but anything loaded by grub can not. >
We currently default to ext4, not XFS for /boot, though we do have EFI filesystem drivers we could ship for btrfs, ext4, and xfs for those cases. > Given we are talking about new installs I think it is possible to make > this add-on idea work nevertheless if the filesystem type for /boot is > switched from xfs to vfat in anaconda. > Sure, but we explicitly *do not want* to do that. So, keeping the DTBs merged into vmlinux makes sense. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
