On 4/11/22 14:18, Peter Boy wrote:
Am 10.04.2022 um 04:50 schrieb Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:01 PM Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
Moving past the Big Three(tm), the actual cloud providers that matter from a Fedora context are the smaller outfits that principally serve Linux users. These are companies like DigitalOcean, Linode (Akamai), Hetzner, VexxHost, and others who graciously do offer Fedora Linux in their platforms. All of their virtualization platforms are BIOS only right now, and getting them to switch requires them to uplift their platforms to support UEFI in the first place.
I want to reiterate, it's not just about cloud platforms! if we remove BIOS boot (too early), we also kick Fedora servers, installed on hardware, out of these data centers. And the reason is not that this server hardware does not support UEFI, but the management infrastructure of the data centers.
And kicking ourselves out, really doesn't strike me as a brilliant idea.
They may only support Linux users today, but if they want to grow (and while it is possible to survive as a niche service, many see growth as the way to increased revenue/profits (go big or go home)), they are going to get pushed (perhaps kicking and screaming) to support UEFI as at least an alternative …
It’s not so much about kicking and streaming, but about time, man power and financial resources.
Given how large a company Red Hat is, I presume that they could come up with these resources. The cost to Red Hat of maintaining legacy BIOS support is much less than the cost to the community of not doing so.