Hello all, Lubos Kocman wrote:
Hello openSUSE!
SUSE is evaluating drop of Legacy boot support, please let us know if you foresee any issues. Please be aware that SLES 16 / Leap 16 support requires x86_64-v2 so I personally believe that there won't be many cases where such a system would not support UEFI.
so there still seems to be hardware supporting x86_64-v2 but not UEFI (mostly broken UEFI). For SUSE this is no problem, since they still have the SLE 15 branch for some years. But openSUSE Leap does not! We switch Leap base to SLE16. If both plans (dropping BIOS support in SLE16 AND only using SLE16 as base for LEAP) ar carried out, those Leap users would have to switch to Tumbleweed or look for a new distro. The same was already done with 32bit Hardware longer time ago. And the same is already decided with the switch to x86_64-v2 only in SLE/Leap 16. Now the question is: Does our community have enough interested contributors to support BIOS boot on Leap 16. Yes, there still is a SLE15, where one can look, but how fast will things change until 15 and 16 are too different. On the other hand: How many users and contributors with old hardware will be lost, when they have to look for a different distro.
I was a bit concerned about virt scenarios, we should ensure that uefi is the default for new VMs as it seems to be legacy boot now.
Personally I am really interested in UEFI for new VMs. But converting existing VMs from BIOS to UEFI is not a no-brainer. E.g, one of four Windows 10 VMs was reproducibly broken after conversion from MBT to GPT, I still don't know why. I did not try to convert Leap VMs to UEFI. Are there recipes for that?
If you have any concerns, please share them in code-o-o https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/194
I'll make sure that product management gets to see it. All feedback is highly welcome.
Many thanks in advance
Regards, Andreas