Re: RAID1 & UEFI: support for twin ESPs in GRUB

["D. Jared Dominguez" <Jared_Dominguez@dell.com>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:13:58AM -0600, Lee Fisher wrote:
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> > I believe that, even if you were to implement this, there needs to
> > be clarity from the UEFI forum on what the expected,
> > spec-compliant behavior is when there are multiple ESP's,
> > especially since I doubt it is well tested. Without this
> > information, anything Debian might implement ends up as just a
> > hack, and bugs mostly would end up actually being differences in
> > implementation that no BIOS vendor would actually consider a bug.
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> Perhaps starting with the UEFI Forum's new FOSS-centric mailing list,
> might be a good start. Other FOSS OSes would presumably have to deal
> with this, not just Debian. If you are not a UEFI Forum member, maybe
> you can find a proxy who can help you, if they're interested in
> multiple ESP support. AFAIK, Debian is not a member of UEFI Forum, so
> you'll have to try Canonical, Red Hat, or SuSE.
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> http://www.uefi.org/FWOSForum
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> Thanks,
> Lee

(Added Francesco back since he said he's not subscribed to this list.)

Agreed, and that list is what I had in mind as a starting point for 
Francesco. Membership in the UEFI forum is not necessary to join that 
list and start discussing there.

--Jared


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Jared Domínguez
OS Architect
Linux Engineering
Dell | Client Software Group