Many seem a bit confused but I have only skimmed the comments.
I don't understand the point of the thing described in the OP (I have not watched the talk, just skimmed the notes), myself. Linux kernels can EFI load themselves; if you want more flexibility than a precompiled kernel command line, or to load from ext4/other non-FAT filesystems, refind exists, fits on the ESP (kernel + initramfs can get big; I keep mine on the ESP but wanting to keep it on a larger ext4 filesystem is very understandable) and is very high quality.
Bootloaders are obsolete in this sense; every OS provides an EFI stub loader, except Linux where kernels are their own EFI stub; nevertheless, distros continue to install GRUB alongside themselves on UEFI systems out of inertia. If Red Hat wants to supplant it... okay, but it can be supplanted today with very good components, even if they weren't invented there.
If I had a nickel for every time the RedHat ecosystem overengineered itself into a corner and decided the only possible solution was more overengineering, I could probably buy IBM.
juped|1 year ago
I don't understand the point of the thing described in the OP (I have not watched the talk, just skimmed the notes), myself. Linux kernels can EFI load themselves; if you want more flexibility than a precompiled kernel command line, or to load from ext4/other non-FAT filesystems, refind exists, fits on the ESP (kernel + initramfs can get big; I keep mine on the ESP but wanting to keep it on a larger ext4 filesystem is very understandable) and is very high quality.
Bootloaders are obsolete in this sense; every OS provides an EFI stub loader, except Linux where kernels are their own EFI stub; nevertheless, distros continue to install GRUB alongside themselves on UEFI systems out of inertia. If Red Hat wants to supplant it... okay, but it can be supplanted today with very good components, even if they weren't invented there.
creshal|1 year ago