Cure found for kernel updates

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 15.05.14 18:09, Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:07:15PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>wrote:
> > > We can, but the spec requires that it be VFAT, and it's not reasonable
> > > for us to make /boot VFAT (no selinux labelling, for instance).
> > >
> > 
> > I guess this is so more minimal bootloaders could read it?
> > Another partition is not something I'd want either. What are the downsides
> > of
> > putting those files on the ESP, besides it not being a standard practice for
> > other OS providers?
> 
> It may not be big enough. Remember, it's a shared resource - if you use 
> the ESP as $BOOT and you have multiple operating systems, they'll all 
> install their kernels there.

Whoch the boot loader spec actually covers. It suggest adding a second
partition for the kernels, with GPT type id
bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat