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[bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs.
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Stefan |
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[bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs. |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:12:03 +0200 |
Hi Maxim!
> I see. Then we're talking about TFTP support in GRUB, and it doesn't
> seem to depend on EFI at all (which is good!).
Well, the data transfer in GRUB is using TFTP, but the actual network driver,
the facilities to start a kernel and so on, happens by GRUB via the EFI-API in
my case, which is provided by the U-Boot.
It may be a runtime detection, if the EFI-API or the legacy BIOS functions are
used. I don’t know.
In that case I should probably rename grub-efi-net to grub-net.
> Yes. For having done it recently, enabling the NFS support in the kernel
> doesn't require much change, but then supporting a vast array of network
> cards directly in the kernel doesn't sound too appealing. IIUC, going
> through an initrd allows dynamically loading kernel modules instead of
> having them statically built in the kernel (so that a user could add a
> network module of their choice to their OS declaration without having to
> rebuild the default kernel), which is why it's better to go that route
> in Guix.
>
> Am I understanding things correctly?
Yes. And additionally as a beginner I simply don’t want to try to remove the
initrd, I can’t even imagine the effort to do so. :-)
Bye
Stefan
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., (continued)
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., Danny Milosavljevic, 2020/06/11
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., Stefan, 2020/06/12
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., Maxim Cournoyer, 2020/06/14
- [bug#41820] [PATCH] file-systems: Add record type <nfs-share> for a file system device., Stefan, 2020/06/11
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., Stefan, 2020/06/11
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs., Maxim Cournoyer, 2020/06/14
- [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs.,
Stefan <=