GRUB 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GRUB 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface

GRUB 2.06 was released back in June of 2021 and today it's finally been succeeded by... GRUB 2.12. This latest GRUB stable release has been a long time coming but it's finally out before the new year and it's packing many features for this widely-used open-source bootloader...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.12-Released

[_r00t-]

Will it play DooM? Just kidding ... of course all those changes are welcomed!

[cassiofb-dev]

Nice SDL2, hope they can continue to add features so I can play in grub

[kozman]

Another cool release to end out the year and make for a better Linux in 2024. Good job devs!

[You-]

Any idea what the current patch difference state is with Fedora/Red Hat?

(for those wondering why I am asking, AFAIK, grub2 was pretty quiet upstream for a while... and Red Hat/Fedora continued development downstream. Most distros moved to the downstream Fedora soft-fork. Fedora has carried up to 347 patches in version 2.06. When upstream development picked back up, it was a few hundred patches behind and all those changes needed to be pushed back upstream. This has been happening, but it was considered irresponsible to wholesale accept all changes and a process was initiated to upstream the patches, last I heard there was still a difference of over 100 patches).

[EvilHowl]

Why does a bootloader need to support SDL2? Is there another SDL2, which is not the famous multimedia library, that I'm not aware of?

[tildearrow]

SDL2 support? What does that mean?

Running GRUB as an application using SDL, or running an SDL application directly from GRUB?

[johnp]

Perhaps with SDL2 support, one can create graphics, like the ANSI graphics, on the boot menu?

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[nerdopolis]

Another project had a release today. Look ~45 miles Southeast from Wayland MA.

[SlickMcRunfast]

This might be the SDL2 origin. https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/port-...o-bios/25453/2