On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well there's u-boot on ARMv7 and probably on aarch64 (uEFI is for the > server spec, not necessarily other form factors), what about those > users interested in using gummiboot instead of grub2?
Gummiboot supports no file systems, only what the firmware itself support. Simpler than GRUB is fine, but it's too simple. Recently the maintainers stated only firmware RAID will be supported, which means a.) you have to have proprietary firmware RAID on your motherboard, and b.) no Btrfs self-heal features because in firmware raid the whole drive goes into a container managed by the firmware and mdadm. There's some obscure work that wraps GRUB's fs modules into EFI file system drivers, which would obviate everyone having to reinvent the wheel by integrating file system support into each bootloader. Then gummiboot could directly boot from Btrfs just by permitting a config format change that allows reading from other volumes. And mjg59 did write up such a variant on bootloaderspec, but no comments or merging of this idea by upstream as far as I'm aware. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/drivers.html -- Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
