On 7/26/22 21:56, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> said: >>> a. Fix GRUB by giving it the ability to modify UEFI NRAM "bootnext" value, >>> so that instead of chainloading the Windows bootloader from GRUB, GRUB will >>> modify the system NVRAM such that the next boot (only) will directly boot >>> the Windows bootloader. Thus far there's no interest by GRUB upstream. >>> Whereas systemd-boot has implemented it. >> >> Is GRUB upstream any more active these days? > > It is but seems there's no interest in this particular issue. > > I started a couple threads on this topic previously, but there's not much > traction: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2022-02/msg00072.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2022-03/msg00227.html > > >> IIRC Fedora has a whole >> pile of patches; I'm sure nobody wants the pile to grow, but it doesn't >> look like that's changing. Could this be implemented in Fedora's GRUB? > > It's been cut down quit a bit actually. GRUB 2.06 cut the patchset around in > half. And GRUB 2.12 release is imminent, which will cut things down farther. > > Since the Red Hat bootloader team is pretty swamped as it is, and has > indicated it needs to drop BIOS support (in favor of the newly minted BIOS > SIG) soon, I'm skeptical the bootloader team has at least the time to work on > this, maintain it, and try to push it upstream. Thing is, it really needs > upstream to agree to it, because if it's not upstreamed, what's the point? > This is an issue that affects all distros and quite a lot of users > eventually, as Bitlocker by default becomes more prevalent. Maybe this issue > needs more visibility? Behind the handful of lists I've tried so far?
Time to ask Microsoft to approve a different stage-2 bootloader? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
