Re:No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:50PM
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Refuse, or legally can't? Oracle doesn't own the copyrights on commits made after illumos forked from the corpse of opensolaris.
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Re:No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
by nubinetwork on Monday July 08, 2024 @07:17PM
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A little of both. Everyone know about Linus' refusal to touch CDDL code, but grub isn't the kernel.
There have been several attempts to add features to the grub zfs code over the years, but there are several maintainers of grub who happen to be employees of Oracle, and typically the attempts go nowhere.
I personally can't recommend using grub anymore. The whole "just make 2 pools" solution is unacceptable, and until Oracle stops gatekeeping, their code becomes more obsolete in my eyes.