Hi,
But why start doing UKI without first fixing the need of host
specific
initrd and commandline.
We are trying to tackle that in parallel. At least when generating
virtual machine images we can temporarily workaround that with short
%post scripts in kickstart files.
I am sure even non-UEFI users will be better of of not having a host
specific initrd. We should first start working on shipping initrd on
dedora as an rpm with atleast one use which can be extended by sysext
or someother mechanism without the need of UKI first.
We'll have to continue support kernel + host-generated initrd for the
foreseeable future. UKIs are a second option. Adding kernel + shipped
initrd as third option IMHO just adds complexity for no real benefit.
Once That is possible that UKI can be easily be intgrated and
tested. We will be also provide a subset of benefits to the non-UEFI
users(for example on other arches).
We have experimental grub patches which can boot unified kernel on bios
systems. Intended use case: hybrid bios/uefi cloud images with
UKIs. Extending that to ppc is probably possible too should the ppc
arch maintainers be interested.
take care,
Gerd