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

2022-04-15 Thread Björn Persson
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > "In the bios, upgraded to 810 the option to enable legacy boot is greyed > out" > > So how do people propose the situation to be handled when firmware from > vendors, disables the legacy boot option via firmware update. I haven't seen anyone arguing that Fedora

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

2022-04-15 Thread Björn Persson
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts > available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense > for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of > it's manufacturing. I fail to imagine what

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

2022-04-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 09:29:27PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > >That’s maybe true for desktops, but in the server world any server needs > >to be able to do bios boot, because of the data center requirements. > > > Interesting I would assume that those data center requirements would >

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

2022-04-15 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 15/04/2022 00:53, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Obviously this was for dual bios mode ( legacy and uefi ) ( otherwise the option to disable it would not be there ) in which the vendor himself seemingly decided to disable the legacy part of the bios via firmware update which highlight the

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

2022-04-15 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 15/04/2022 03:51, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: But I'm still surprised that Fedora by default downloads and updates proprietary firmware, downloaded from the Internet. 1. Fedora itself doesn't download anything. The user must manually allow installation of such update. 2. Vulnerable firmware is

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

2022-04-15 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 15/04/2022 01:25, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: At least on my computers, Gnome has never notified me about a BIOS update from my motherboard vendor. Besides, it's proprietary software, so I wouldn't expect Fedora to be offering it by default. Doesn't it need adding an extra software repository?

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

2022-04-15 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.04.2022 um 00:24 schrieb Nikolay Nikolov : > > If you want to deprecate legacy boot on new installs on UEFI-capable BIOS-es, > that's another story. E.g. if the installer detects that the BIOS is modern > (e.g. later than 2017-2018) and UEFI capable, but is running in legacy boot >

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

2022-04-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:39 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > I am also worried that this is just a delayed retirement, as it was for 32- > bit i686, where the SIG was very quickly declared a failure, without even > being given time to organize. Well, presumably, if you are a member of the

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 Samuel Sieb
On 4/14/22 15:53, 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 Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 15.4.2022 00:44, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: One of the reasons people use GNU/Linux is exactly to escape the hardware manufacturers' planned obsolescence treadmill. True but that does not mean Fedora is the best distro for that + it looks like hw vendors are taking lessons from the

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
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, Robbie Harwood said: Given there is consensus that

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Justin Forbes wrote: > The i686 SIG was given multiple releases to organize. The original > proposal which triggered the SIG to form was for F27, the proposal to > finally kill it and declare the SIG inactive was F31. But, the way I remember it, the SIG was declared inactive just because of

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 15.4.2022 00:38, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Trying to support that legacy scenario where certain hw may or may not work is a nightmare for developers, support teams and Fedora since Fedora is not a distribution with a long term support, LTS distributions are

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > No but it does mean that they cant run indefinitely Only if the spare parts that are not available actually fail (and if you cannot find the spare parts through less official channels, such as buying another broken computer where the part you need is still

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Trying to support that legacy scenario where certain hw may or may not > work is a nightmare for developers, support teams and Fedora since > Fedora is not a distribution with a long term support, LTS distributions > are better suited to support legacy hw then Fedora

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Then there is the fact that clinging to legacy bios is working against > Fedora's own foundation "First" in which is stated "Fedora always aims > to provide the future, first". How is it against "First" to continue providing the future also for hardware of the

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 Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
If people are wondering how it looks like when Fedora's code of conduct is violated when people partaking in community discussions and receive attacks in private as an result of that here's an example of that. This individual has already sent at least me death threats ( privately ), been

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
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 this statement is true, unless Fedora doesn't

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 18:29, Peter Boy wrote: Maybe "legacy BIOS on physical hardware" is on its way out, but it doesn't seem that it is true across the board in VM environments. That’s maybe true for desktops, but in the server world any server needs to be able to do bios boot, because of the data

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
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 VM hosts (e.g. Linode and such) that have no

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 16:38, Ben Beasley wrote: I’m not talking about refurbished parts or new old stock. I’m talking about the brand-new SATA HDDs and SSDs, ATX power supplies, case fans, and other components that are backwards-compatible in systems pushing twenty years old (SATA) or older (PSUs,

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

2022-04-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:18:12PM +, JadoNena via devel wrote: > All of this discussion waves a red flag at us. [...] > But only a few people are talking about the real costs to users. Please don't read too much into everything you see in big mailing list threads like this, especially as you

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

2022-04-14 Thread Justin Forbes
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 6:39 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Ralf Corsépius wrote: > > I do not agree with this statement. Like previous "Legacy SIGs" this is > > a red herring to obfuscate RHATs lack of disinterest with topics, which > > do not match into their business objectives. > > I

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

2022-04-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:29 PM Peter Boy wrote: > > > > > Am 14.04.2022 um 20:20 schrieb Chris Adams : > > > > 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 >

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

2022-04-14 Thread Peter Boy
That’s a step into the right direction, but needs some corrections: > Am 14.04.2022 um 20:02 schrieb Robbie Harwood : > > > The overall goal of the SIG needs to be to reduce load on existing > bootloader contributors. If it is not doing this, it needs to be > dissolved. The first overall goal

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

2022-04-14 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi Robbie, On 4/14/22 20:02, Robbie Harwood wrote: > Hans de Goede writes: > >> What I envision for the SIG is: >> >> 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership >> of pkgs in pagure? So to keep things simple the few packages which >> are only necessary for BIOS boot can be

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

2022-04-14 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 14.04.2022 um 20:20 schrieb Chris Adams : > > 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 VM hosts (e.g. Linode and

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

2022-04-14 Thread Chris Adams
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 VM hosts (e.g. Linode and such) that have no stated plans to support UEFI. Maybe "legacy

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

2022-04-14 Thread Robbie Harwood
Hans de Goede writes: > What I envision for the SIG is: > > 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership > of pkgs in pagure? So to keep things simple the few packages which > are only necessary for BIOS boot can be handed over to me and then > I'll just add other people willing to

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

2022-04-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:08 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 14/04/2022 15:31, John Reiser wrote: > > Some of them even have "without data loss" in the page title. > > Without moving data to another physical drive this operation is too > dangerous. > > I tried on my testing VM and lost

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 15:53, Peter Boy wrote: Am 14.04.2022 um 17:33 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : It should be quite apparent prevent the hw support lifecycle dialog from ever occurring again we need a rigid planned supported hw lifecycle. Again, the legacy BIOS discussion is not about hardware,

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

2022-04-14 Thread Martin Jackson
It happens that way in some places but not everywhere. I believe someone earlier mentioned how this whole discussion is security theater - some companies know this to be true and have fiscal policies that reflect that. I have direct experience working for a large organization where 3-5 years

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

2022-04-14 Thread Robbie Harwood
Hans de Goede writes: > On 4/13/22 21:27, David Cantrell wrote: > >> OK, given this proposal, I'd like the original change proposal >> amended to essentially say "transfer legacy BIOS boot support to >> newly formed Legacy BIOS SIG" or something like that. The logistics >> at that point can be

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

2022-04-14 Thread Ben Beasley
I’m not talking about refurbished parts or new old stock. I’m talking about the brand-new SATA HDDs and SSDs, ATX power supplies, case fans, and other components that are backwards-compatible in systems pushing twenty years old (SATA) or older (PSUs, fans). Maybe I misunderstand, but your

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

2022-04-14 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 14.04.2022 um 17:33 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : > > It should be quite apparent prevent the hw support lifecycle dialog from ever > occurring again we need a rigid planned supported hw lifecycle. > Again, the legacy BIOS discussion is not about hardware, as implied by the name. It

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

2022-04-14 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 14/04/2022 16:21, John Reiser wrote: Please show what "sudo fdisk $DEVICE_NAME" says for the 'p' (print) command (then 'q' to quit), both before and after the attempted conversion. I no longer have legacy BIOS configurations. VMs have been reinstalled from scratch after trying to convert

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 14:07, Martin Jackson wrote: In many industrial and retail use cases, 10 years is the low end. 3-5 years is an accounting timeline (for depreciation) not necessarily the useful life of the asset. If the asset can be used after it’s done depreciating that is a bonus for the

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 13:09, Ben Beasley wrote: For desktop-class hardware, the parts that are most likely to fail around the decade mark are storage drives, power supplies, and perhaps fans. All of these are fully standardized and in plentiful supply; there is no reason that first-party hardware

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

2022-04-14 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 5:09 PM Hans de Goede wrote: > > Hi Michel, > > On 4/13/22 22:29, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership > >> of pkgs in pagure? So

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

2022-04-14 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 4/13/22 23:11, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> If that proves acceptable for change owners here that would perhaps take >> care of the short term problem. What about longer term though? Would the >> thought be that the BIOS sig would

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

2022-04-14 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi Michel, On 4/13/22 22:29, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership >> of pkgs in pagure? So to keep things simple the few packages which >> are only necessary for

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

2022-04-14 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi David, On 4/13/22 21:27, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 4/13/22 18:07, David Cantrell wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Wed, Apr 13 2022 at 10:54:01 AM -0400, David

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

2022-04-14 Thread Ralf Corsépius
Am 14.04.22 um 13:39 schrieb Kevin Kofler via devel: Ralf Corsépius wrote: I do not agree with this statement. Like previous "Legacy SIGs" this is a red herring to obfuscate RHATs lack of disinterest with topics, which do not match into their business objectives. I am also worried that

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

2022-04-14 Thread John Reiser
On 4/14/22 07:07, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/04/2022 15:31, John Reiser wrote: Some of them even have "without data loss" in the page title. Without moving data to another physical drive this operation is too dangerous. I tried on my testing VM and lost all data from that VM.

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

2022-04-14 Thread Martin Jackson
In many industrial and retail use cases, 10 years is the low end. 3-5 years is an accounting timeline (for depreciation) not necessarily the useful life of the asset. If the asset can be used after it’s done depreciating that is a bonus for the company using it. Thanks, > On Apr 14, 2022, at

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

2022-04-14 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 14/04/2022 15:31, John Reiser wrote: Some of them even have "without data loss" in the page title. Without moving data to another physical drive this operation is too dangerous. I tried on my testing VM and lost all data from that VM. Restored snapshot. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev

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

2022-04-14 Thread John Reiser
On 4/14/22 02:01, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 13/04/2022 23:11, Matthew Miller wrote: It'd be cool to see if we can make a bios-to-uefi thing like Clover work. I don't think it's possible because the MBR -> GPT conversion will destroy all partitions on the original drive. An

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

2022-04-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:58 AM JadoNena wrote: > > Hello, > > > On Thursday, April 14th, 2022 at 8:43 AM, Neal Gompa > > wrote: > > Thank you very much for your reply. You are one of those several people that > we have been reading has some good sense for users! > > > First: do not panic! >

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

2022-04-14 Thread Ben Beasley
For desktop-class hardware, the parts that are most likely to fail around the decade mark are storage drives, power supplies, and perhaps fans. All of these are fully standardized and in plentiful supply; there is no reason that first-party hardware vendor support should be required to keep

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

2022-04-14 Thread JadoNena via devel
Hello, > On Thursday, April 14th, 2022 at 8:43 AM, Neal Gompa > wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. You are one of those several people that we have been reading has some good sense for users! > First: do not panic! Of course panic is a bad idea. I am just observing this largest

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

2022-04-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:18 AM JadoNena via devel wrote: > > > The question is: how many users do we want to leave behind? Or: how many > > users must we leave behind because we can’t do the job. > > We are just users. Our expert development is for other professions than > writing drivers and

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 12:18, JadoNena via devel wrote: But for here we deal with the real world where budgets require plans and hardware exists for years. If you are dealing with the real world with real businesses then you should be aware of the fact that businesses are usually on a 3 - 5 year hw

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

2022-04-14 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 14.04.2022 um 14:05 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : > > On 14.4.2022 11:53, Peter Boy wrote: >> >>> Am 14.04.2022 um 12:57 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : >>> >>> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts >>> available for 7–10 years after date of

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

2022-04-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 01:42:26PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > In this case that SIG would be created for no good reason since the > > outcome is inevitable. > > I still do not see what is inevitable about the outcome. Keeping legacy, no > longer

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 11:42, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of

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

2022-04-14 Thread JadoNena via devel
> The question is: how many users do we want to leave behind? Or: how many > users must we leave behind because we can’t do the job. We are just users. Our expert development is for other professions than writing drivers and operating systems. My company has about 200 Fedora user PCs around

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 11:53, Peter Boy wrote: Am 14.04.2022 um 12:57 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense for the project to support hw no longer than a decade

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

2022-04-14 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 14.04.2022 um 12:57 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson : > > For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts > available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense for > the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of it's >

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > In this case that SIG would be created for no good reason since the > outcome is inevitable. I still do not see what is inevitable about the outcome. Keeping legacy, no longer changing, interfaces working forever should require next to no effort. > For how long

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

2022-04-14 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 13. 04. 22 22:29, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership of pkgs in pagure? So to keep things simple the few packages which are only necessary for BIOS boot can be handed

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

2022-04-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Ralf Corsépius wrote: > I do not agree with this statement. Like previous "Legacy SIGs" this is > a red herring to obfuscate RHATs lack of disinterest with topics, which > do not match into their business objectives. I am also worried that this is just a delayed retirement, as it was for 32- bit

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

2022-04-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 9:12 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > It'd be cool to see if we can make a bios-to-uefi thing like Clover work. > That might be something interesting for the SIG to do. But, I don't think > that's really a small project! This is mostly off topic, and while I have not carefully

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

2022-04-14 Thread Jóhann B . Guðmundsson
On 14.4.2022 09:17, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:01:30AM +0200, Ralf Corsépius wrote: Am 13.04.22 um 20:05 schrieb David Cantrell: The Legacy BIOS SIG is a good proposal to handle this sort of ongoing work in Fedora. I do not agree with this statement. Like previous

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

2022-04-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:01:30AM +0200, Ralf Corsépius wrote: > > > Am 13.04.22 um 20:05 schrieb David Cantrell: > > > The Legacy BIOS SIG is a good proposal to handle this sort of ongoing work > > in > > Fedora. > > I do not agree with this statement. Like previous "Legacy SIGs" this is a

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

2022-04-14 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 13/04/2022 23:11, Matthew Miller wrote: It'd be cool to see if we can make a bios-to-uefi thing like Clover work. I don't think it's possible because the MBR -> GPT conversion will destroy all partitions on the original drive. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)

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

2022-04-14 Thread Ralf Corsépius
Am 13.04.22 um 20:05 schrieb David Cantrell: The Legacy BIOS SIG is a good proposal to handle this sort of ongoing work in Fedora. I do not agree with this statement. Like previous "Legacy SIGs" this is a red herring to obfuscate RHATs lack of disinterest with topics, which do not match

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

2022-04-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:38 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Matthew Miller wrote: > > We've got a 300+ message thread in just one week, with 66 different > > participants. This handily beats discussions systemd-resolved, > > btrfs-by-default, and even switching the default editor to nano.

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

2022-04-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > The binary RPM for grub's BIOS boot code is grub2-pc (and > grub2-pc-modules), not grub2. Oh, it used to be just grub2 until F26 (included), I had either forgotten or not noticed at all that it had been renamed back in F27 already. (It used to be the case for years that

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

2022-04-13 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:45 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Hans de Goede wrote: > > As the Source0 provider for the packages and then next to: > > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2 > > > > Add a: > > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2-bios > > > > And moving the build

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

2022-04-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Hans de Goede wrote: > As the Source0 provider for the packages and then next to: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2 > > Add a: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2-bios > > And moving the build of all sub-packages which are > only necessary for BIOS support to the second

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

2022-04-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Matthew Miller wrote: > We've got a 300+ message thread in just one week, with 66 different > participants. This handily beats discussions systemd-resolved, > btrfs-by-default, and even switching the default editor to nano. > > Clearly there's a lot to talk about here. Would it be useful to have

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

2022-04-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > If that proves acceptable for change owners here that would perhaps take > care of the short term problem. What about longer term though? Would the > thought be that the BIOS sig would remain around for the forseeable > future

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

2022-04-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:27:14PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > > FWIW, ATM I think everything which can be said about > > this has been said and I'm not sure if having a video > > call about this will add anything new. > Agreed. Works for me -- I just wanted to put the option there in case it

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

2022-04-13 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > > 1. I'm not sure if it is possible to setup group ownership > of pkgs in pagure? So to keep things simple the few packages which > are only necessary for BIOS boot can be handed over to me and then > I'll just add other

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

2022-04-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip bios sig plan... Thanks for that Hans! If that proves acceptable for change owners here that would perhaps take care of the short term problem. What about longer term though? Would the thought be that the BIOS sig would remain around for the forseeable future maintaining BIOS boot? Or

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

2022-04-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 4/13/22 18:07, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 13 2022 at 10:54:01 AM -0400, David Cantrell > >> wrote: > >>> The core issue still comes down

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

2022-04-13 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 4/13/22 18:07, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13 2022 at 10:54:01 AM -0400, David Cantrell >> wrote: >>> The core issue still comes down to having resources to continue >>> maintaining >>> BIOS boot support in

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

2022-04-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/13/22 07:54, David Cantrell wrote: > > The core issue still comes down to having resources to continue maintaining > > BIOS boot support in Fedora and so far no one has come forward to work on > > that. > > As far as I can tell

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

2022-04-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/13/22 07:54, David Cantrell wrote: The core issue still comes down to having resources to continue maintaining BIOS boot support in Fedora and so far no one has come forward to work on that. As far as I can tell from the responses in the other thread, there is not currently an issue with

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

2022-04-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13 2022 at 10:54:01 AM -0400, David Cantrell > wrote: > > The core issue still comes down to having resources to continue > > maintaining > > BIOS boot support in Fedora and so far no one has come forward to work > >

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

2022-04-13 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Apr 13 2022 at 10:54:01 AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: The core issue still comes down to having resources to continue maintaining BIOS boot support in Fedora and so far no one has come forward to work on that. It's not true, although you can be forgiven for missing it in such a

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

2022-04-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 07:20:52PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > We've got a 300+ message thread in just one week, with 66 different > participants. This handily beats discussions systemd-resolved, > btrfs-by-default, and even switching the default editor to nano. > > Clearly there's a lot to

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

2022-04-12 Thread Matthew Miller
We've got a 300+ message thread in just one week, with 66 different participants. This handily beats discussions systemd-resolved, btrfs-by-default, and even switching the default editor to nano. Clearly there's a lot to talk about here. Would it be useful to have a high-bandwidth, moderated