On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 07:42:28AM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
I don't agree. One of the selling point of openSUSE/SUSE is that it supports a lot of older hardware.
and that's still the case for Tumbleweed. For Leap 16 support for a lot of older hardware was dropped by requiring x86_64-v2 CPU feature set for dubious benefit.
With that there is not much point supporting legacy BIOS, either.
Yes, that's why I personally think dropping legacy BIOS won't really extend the existing compatibility filter. Denis Knorr mentioned 2020 hardware with coreboot/libreboot. I'm not yet sure what it means for such hardware.
Most if not all hardware that would benefit from that is not supported anyway.
Thanks
Michal
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> 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.
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.
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
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