Re: RFC: Switching FreeBSD/EC2 images to UEFI boot
- In reply to: Colin Percival : "RFC: Switching FreeBSD/EC2 images to UEFI boot"
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:30:23 UTC
> On 29 Aug 2021, at 05:05, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > > We have a decision to make and I'm > looking for input from the community. Faster booting, or support for older > EC2 instance types in our published AMIs? > > -- > Colin Percival Thanks for asking, Colin. From my perspective, any improvement to boot times is highly welcome. I am not affected by the older/legacy instance types. I suspect that in the world of fast-changing cloud provisioning, and very much unlike in the world of real hardware, there would be less of a need to maintain support for older platforms. While it is important for FreeBSD to support older physical hardware, laptops, cards etc, I do not think that is as important for cloud platforms at all. However, I fully respect that others may have different perspectives, so please do not base your decision merely on mine. -- Rafal Lukawiecki Data Scientist Project Botticelli Ltd