Hello, On 2025-02-14 15:12, Thorsten Kukuk via openSUSE Factory wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> wrote:
On 2025-02-14 13:34, Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory wrote:
SUSE is evaluating drop of Legacy boot support, please let us know if you foresee any issues.
as far as I noticed (also from SUSE customers) BIOS is still rather often used on virtual machines (regardless that technically they likely could also use UEFI in most of their virtualization environments).
That's changing. Many of the new features customers meanwhile need are not possible with legacy BIOS, you need UEFI.
This is a different question. The question was not when UEFI is needed. The question was when BIOS support could be still needed.
Which is also true for the main new Leap 16/SLES 16 features (I don't speak about package version updates). They don't work with legacy bios.
When this means Leap 16/SLES 16 cannot (reasonably) work without those "main new Leap 16/SLES 16 features" then Leap 16/SLES 16 can no longer support BIOS i.e. when BIOS support would contradict or conflict with basic Leap 16/SLES 16 core functionality. In this case customers who need BIOS support could still use SLES 15 at least until 31 Jul 2031 and even longer with LTSS, cf. https://www.suse.com/de-de/lifecycle/#suse-linux-enterprise-server-15 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 - 90461 Nuernberg - Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg) GF: Ivo Totev