Re: Would it be useful to have a video call to discuss the "Deprecate Legacy BIOS" Change proposal?

2022-04-14 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/15/22 04:01, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 23:25, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 4/15/22 01:53, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 22:24, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 4/14/22 23:49, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 18:20, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time

Re: Would it be useful to have a video call to discuss the "Deprecate Legacy BIOS" Change proposal?

2022-04-14 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/15/22 01:53, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 22:24, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 4/14/22 23:49, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 18:20, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robbie Harwood said: Given there is consensus that legacy BIOS is on its way out I don't think

Re: Would it be useful to have a video call to discuss the "Deprecate Legacy BIOS" Change proposal?

2022-04-14 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/14/22 23:49, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 14.4.2022 18:20, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robbie Harwood said: Given there is consensus that legacy BIOS is on its way out I don't think this statement is true, unless Fedora doesn't want to be considered for a bunch of popular

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-10 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/10/22 16:27, Neal Gompa wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 10:51 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:01 PM Neal Gompa wrote: Moving past the Big Three(tm), the actual cloud providers that matter from a Fedora context are the smaller outfits that principally serve Linux

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-10 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/10/22 05:50, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:01 PM Neal Gompa wrote: Moving past the Big Three(tm), the actual cloud providers that matter from a Fedora context are the smaller outfits that principally serve Linux users. These are companies like DigitalOcean, Linode

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-10 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/10/22 09:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: Maybe I should try adapting my code, so that it finds the GRUB BIOS boot partition and loads it? This would be a nice stunt for which we would have to find a use case. As stated yesterday, the GRUB El Torito image contains

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-09 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/10/22 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: I haven't looked at GRUB's MBR code, but there's enough space in the MBR to scan the GPT entries, find a specific GUID partition type and load the first several kilobytes from it and transfer control to it. Well, GRUB goes

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-09 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/9/22 03:07, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 4:31 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: Yeah, I'm not aware off hand of any UEFI that have a problem with the first 440 bytes of LBA 0 being non-zero. If they did, then they would have problems with GPT disks, initialized by Windows 10,

Re: RFC: Reduce number of packages that are built for i686

2021-11-18 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 11/18/21 00:27, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:58:43PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: What else is there that people care about in Fedora that's only i686? Well, wine? I don't know how much 32bit wine is used these days. And not 'in fedora', but people always bring up steam

Re: Free Pascal and F35 Mass Rebuild

2021-08-08 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 8/8/21 10:10 AM, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: Il 07/08/21 21:30, Nikolay Nikolov ha scritto: On 8/7/21 6:19 PM, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: So, I still haven't seen anything posted in gitlab or mailing lists, so I've posted to the FPC forums: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: Free Pascal and F35 Mass Rebuild

2021-08-07 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 8/7/21 6:19 PM, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: So, I still haven't seen anything posted in gitlab or mailing lists, so I've posted to the FPC forums: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,55723.0.html The gitlab repository was supposed to go public today, but yet another

Re: replace memtest86+ with pcmemtest, needs maintainer

2021-08-02 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 8/2/21 9:15 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 02/08/2021 04:04, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm definitely not attached to keeping things the same. The bios memtest86+ is still these days installed to /boot but there hasn't been a menu entry for it for a very long time; in fact maybe it was

Re: Free Pascal and F35 Mass Rebuild

2021-07-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 7/27/21 3:59 PM, Artur Frenszek-Iwicki wrote: Thanks for the help, Florian. Unfortunately, I'll have to admit straight away that even though I co-maintain FPC, my knowledge of assembly, ELF and compilers in general is close to non-existent, so I don't really know how to apply the minimal

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2021-05-27 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 5/27/21 5:25 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 27.05.2021 16:17, Marius Schwarz wrote: Also, a lot of laptops are installed in Legacy Mode, as setting them up in EFI was impossible. 1. Backup all data. 2. Convert MBR to GPT. 3. Create an ESP partition, add it to the /etc/fstab file

Re: Unretiring and maintaining the Fish Fillets NG game

2021-04-29 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 4/29/21 11:19 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 3:59 AM Nikolay Nikolov <mailto:nick...@gmail.com>> wrote: What are the next steps for unretiring these two packages and maintaining them? Hey Nikolay, thanks for taking care of Fish Fillets, it's a great game

Unretiring and maintaining the Fish Fillets NG game

2021-04-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Hi, After my recent upgrade to Fedora 34, I was disappointed to find out that one of my favorite puzzle games Fish Fillets NG has been retired. So, I decided I should make an effort to get it back from the dead and maintain it. The relevant packages are: fillets-ng fillets-ng-data The

Re: New memory tester application potentially to replace memtest86+: PCMemTest

2021-02-09 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 2/9/21 10:53 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 08. 02. 21 v 21:44 Chris Murphy napsal(a): On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:46 AM Vít Ondruch wrote: Being devils advocate, but should we have the memtest86 or similar by default? I have certainly not used this feature in my 10+ yeas with Fedora. You

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-11 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 12/12/20 12:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:15:07AM +0200, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: there's even less reason to skip it. Which really begs the question, why do we even assume the media test is only useful for DVD and not for USB flash? I gave those reasons in my

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-11 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 12/11/20 8:55 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 11.12.2020 19:07, Matthew Miller wrote: I think since burning spinning optical media is no longer the normal way to do this, we should drop this and just go straight to booting (unless of course a key is hit to stop things and enter boot