Nevertheless, the option to enable the legacy BIOS booting can be quite hard to find in the BIOS menus, which may deceive many into believing that a system does not support legacy BIOS booting, even when it actually does support it.
On work computers belonging to a company, the BIOS configuration may be locked, so it might not be possible for the users to enable legacy BIOS booting.
> Intel stopped shipping the last vestiges of BIOS support in 2020 (as have other vendors, and Apple and Microsoft), so this is clearly the way things are heading - and therefore aligns with Fedora's "First" objective.
You may not have seen many computers yet without legacy BIOS compatibility but this is going to be the norm for new computers very soon.
However, it was a model launched in the second half of 2020. It is indeed possible that the models introduced since 2021 might omit the legacy BIOS booting support.
Never noticed until I wanted to boot memtest.
It’s possible that I missed it, but Google results didn’t look promising either.
Others have pointed out that the CSM is no longer being shipped. The CSM is the "Compatibility Support Module" and its a UEFI shim driver that adds the legacy bios INTx operations to a UEFI implementation.
So, most people booting in BIOS mode on hardware built in the past 15 years or so are actually running UEFI with an extra shim.