Technical committee rejects plan to end BIOS support in Fedora

At a meeting of the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora Linux distribution, the change proposed for release in Fedora Linux 37 was rejected, which makes UEFI support a mandatory requirement for installing the distribution on the x86_64 platform. The question of the end of BIOS support has been postponed and the developers will probably return to it in preparation for the release of Fedora Linux 38.

The committee also recommended that a fallback be considered, which proposes the establishment of a separate development group, the BIOS SIG (Special Interest Group), which will develop a plan to maintain BIOS support and involve interested parties in its implementation who could take on the work of maintaining BIOS support in the bootloader and installer builds, as well as testing the compatibility of Fedora builds with BIOS-equipped systems. This includes the possibility of moving components for BIOS support in the GRUB bootloader into a separate package and delegating support for this package to the BIOS SIG so as not to take resources from the core development team, which can focus on running Fedora in UEFI environments.

Source: opennet.ru

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