LPC: Booting and systemd

That seems like a perfectly reasonable trade-off. As a practical matter, how often does the kernel interface have incompatible changes such that forces the need for a new bootloader. EFI and GRUB can already just load an arbitrary boot sector if you want a layered approach but from what little experience I have with EFI (just started working with it last week) it seems nearly capable enough.

Interestingly enough, elsewhere in LWN was a report of progress in making a linux kernel image that is directly bootable from EFI.