[systemd-devel] Splitting sd-boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd-boot in Fedora

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon May 2 09:26:07 UTC 2022


On Sa, 30.04.22 14:54, Andrea Pappacoda (andrea at pappacoda.it) wrote:

> > > If current bootloader already works on platforms supported by
> > > distribution, what is gained by adding yet another one?
> > Freedom of choice
> >
> There's nothing preventing you from using systemd-boot on Debian, and in
> fact I do. It would be nice to have secure boot working out of the box, but
> unfortunately this isn't currently possible.

Well, it's certainly *possible*, there's zero technical reason behing
not allowing this. It's a 100% political decision by the SHIM upstream
maintainer.

Lennart

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