Re: GRUB 2.12 release, etc.

[Pete Batard]

Hi Daniel.

Thanks for keeping the list posted on your release plans.

On 2022.06.10 18:20, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> If you think some features and fixes should land in the GRUB 2.12 please
> replay to this email.

Well, I sure would like the grub-mkrescue patches I posted on 06/06, 
that fix support for EFI file system transposition, to be included in 
the next formal release as, I am directly aware of this issue negatively 
impacting users of Proxmox and Super Grub2 Disk for instance, and I have 
validated that an updated grub-mkrescue would immediately fix the 
problem we've been seeing there.

And that is not counting how it would dramatically improve the lives of 
users who create EFI bootable media on Windows (for whom I believe have 
provided enough direct examples of how not having ISOHybrid media that 
supports EFI file system transposition is resulting in a very subpar 
first time experience... if they actually decide to boot their Linux 
media at all) as well as open the door to some very desirable modes of 
using the boot media, such as one drive installation (for which I gave 
an example with RPi4/ARM64, but which is far from being limited to SoCs 
or ARM64 -- for instance, because Debian does make a deliberate effort 
to support file system transposition, it is very much possible for 
anyone to perform a one-media system boot & installation of Debian 11 on 
AMD64 in UEFI mode).

In other words, I am currently sitting on way too many examples of how 
the lack of EFI file system transposition support for the grub-mkrescue 
produced ISOhybrid images is negatively impacting end-users, not to want 
to flag it as something that should be included as a matter of priority 
in GRUB 2.12.

Thank you,

/Pete