Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Aug-05

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:58:20PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> > But surely these 32-bit tablets aren't the only good place where these
> >> > things can be worked on?
> >> To clarify, Bastien is talking about tablets that have 64-bit CPUs and
> >> 64-bit kernels, but 32-bit UEFI firmware.  Not i686 tablets.  Which is
> >> actually pretty terrible in its own right, but still distinct from a
> >> 32-bit tablet.
> >
> > Ah, okay, thanks. How does *that* fit in with kernel team's plans?
> 
> It mostly doesn't impact us.  We already enable EFI_MIXED in the
> kernel.  The remaining work is in shim and grub afaik.
> 
> (Barring bugs and such of course.)

So AIUI so far, there's no reason from the Workstation POV an i686
tree/distro is strictly needed.  I'm assuming no one is proposing
doing away with i686 userspace packages.  (We would certainly care
about that, for example because of prepackaged 32-bit software.)

* Bastien, are you going to talk to grub/shim maintainer(s)?  (I think
  pjones works on both of these.)

* Is there any other input we need/want to provide from Workstation
  WG?

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