Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate

It was just over one week ago the systemd 250 release candidate was issued (along with a brown paper bag 250-rc2 fix-up release). Systemd 250 has a ton of changes for this init system and more while today systemd 250-rc3 was released with yet more changes in tow...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-250-rc3

[Vorpal]

- A proper BCD (Boot Configuration Data) parser for Microsoft Windows' boot data used since Windows Vista.

I assume this is for systemd-boot somehow, but why would it need that? Doesn't it just chain load the windows boot loader, just like grub does?

[CochainComplex]

$ cat /etc/machine-id
`> 7of9

mhh

[discordian]

I assume this is for systemd-boot somehow, but why would it need that? Doesn't it just chain load the windows boot loader, just like grub does?

With UEFI, the bootentries are Windows PE files, systemd-boot can start them as well (just needs to parse the BCD config), no point to chain load, even tho that would be possible

[RedEyed]

I assume this is for systemd-boot somehow, but why would it need that? Doesn't it just chain load the windows boot loader, just like grub does?

According to the changes made in the config_entry_add_windows(), previously it just brute forced windows version title, now it parses windows title from BCD w/o brute forcing it with if memory_startswith().

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

I guess we can expect systemd-ai as another brute force in the future?

[ms178]

Systemd fails to build with Clang-14 when used with LLD as linker (gold is fine) at Test 530/960 (test-hashmap). It would be great if that was fixed before the release.

[Etherman]

I guess we can expect systemd-ai as another brute force in the future?

Yes and now when it is powered by the systemd-network-generator it will be virtually unstoppable!

[Anvil]

Systemd fails to build with Clang-14 when used with LLD as linker (gold is fine) at Test 530/960 (test-hashmap). It would be great if that was fixed before the release.

LLVM14 etc isnt even stable so why did you bother trying to build systemd with it?

[ms178]

LLVM14 etc isnt even stable so why did you bother trying to build systemd with it?

Because I can. That's what testing is for.