On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:46 PM Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> This proposal was soundly rejected, so don't worry about it.
>
> That's great news. Thank you!
I am not thrilled that this has been rejected since efi support is not
so good on Fedora.
Devices that are BIOS can IIRC still use efi using a boot tool
installed to the MBR which emulates EFI
and than loads the EFI loader. This would be a one time step.
I believe EFI emulation would be too big to fit in the
446 bytes available in the MBR, so one would need
a biosboot partition for that EFI emulator, but the
other issue (as I recall) was that the EFI emulation
had been using IP that may not be appropriately
"free" (fat32?). Perhaps now that that IP has been
contributed to OIN (and the various legal reviews
and processes for Fedora to properly utilize those
patents are complete) there may be a future path
forward (if someone is so motivated).