Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/918909/

The Fedora community is currently discussing a proposal to start supporting
a unified
kernel image (UKI) for the distribution; these images would combine
several pieces that are generally separate today (e.g. initrd, kernel, and
kernel
command line). There are a number of
advantages to such a kernel image, at least for some kinds of systems, but
there is worry from some about where the endpoint of this work lies. There
is a need
to ensure that Fedora can still boot non-unified, perhaps locally built,
kernels and can support other use cases that unification might preclude.