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Red Hat looking to hire a bootloader developer (www.theregister.com)

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[+] neuromancer 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like more complexity for the legacy use case in return for less complexity in the expected use case. Probably a fair trade-off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think they’re trying to simplify the exposed interfaces simplifying everyone else’s job at the expense of making a more complex implementation.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's 2023. By this time I'm fine if BIOS boot was removed completely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are there any machines in use anymore that don't support UEFI? When did it become standard? Something like 2012?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At my company, we have around 400,000 servers in production. When we last surveyed them, we found several thousand over 12 years old, with the oldest at 17 years. And that wasn’t counting our lab and admin servers which could run even older because they’re often repurposed from prod decomms.

We had a huge internal effort to virtualize their loads, but in the end, only about 15% were transferred just due to the sheer number of hidden edge cases that kept turning up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many of them would ever run an OS released in 2023?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All of them. Corp directive (now) is that hosts must be updated or reimaged every 90 days.

[–] Khanzarate 3 points 1 year ago

2014 is when a majority of new systems were UEFI, according to Wikipedia, but that's still a majority.

Intel announced in 2017 that by 2020 they're no longer gonna include BIOS support in their computers. So it could easily still pop up today, although it's not that likely to, since that support is for devices that can use either BIOS or UEFI.

[–] woelkchen 2 points 1 year ago

Are there any machines in use anymore that don’t support UEFI?

As the article explains, the move is about VMs but IMO it would make more sense to improve UEFI support in VM solutions than this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If the replacement is Coreboot thats OK, but if this is UEFI no thank you !

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read it as bootlicker at first

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Whatever happened to RedBoot?

[–] mvirts 1 points 1 year ago

Can some independently wealthy developer please get this job and make a beautifully sabotaged bootloader?