Fedora developers plan to use U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems
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Fedora developers plan to use U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems.
Last year, Fedora and Red Hat developers planned to drop legacy BIOS support in Fedora 37 and focus only on UEFI platforms.
However, the plan was strongly opposed by users , who believed that it was too early to abandon traditional BIOS support, and hoped that Fedora could give a smoother transition.
Secondly, some cloud vendors still start VMs in BIOS mode , especially AWS and smaller cloud providers, most of which do not support UEFI , and there is a big VM compatibility problem in abandoning traditional BIOS support .
Seeing that the complete removal of BIOS support is basically hopeless in the next few years, Fedora developer Neal Gompa came up with a new idea : use U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems to provide a UEFI-like experience from Fedora’s perspective.
This approach is somewhat similar to using U-Boot on Fedora for ARM, providing a UEFI-like boot environment on various target platforms.
For x86 systems without proper UEFI support, Neal Gompa believes that it is also possible to boot U-Boot instead to provide a UEFI-like environment for booting Fedora.
Currently this is just an idea on the Fedora Developers mailing list, you can read the discussion in that thread .
Fedora developers plan to use U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems
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