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From: Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>, 41011@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:12:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97853D17-5928-4EDB-918B-793D9DB3ED95@vodafonemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a715h3b9.fsf@gmail.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-17 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 20:32 [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs Stefan
2020-05-10  8:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-10 21:13   ` Stefan
2020-05-18 21:43     ` Stefan
2020-05-21 15:07       ` Stefan
2020-05-21 18:40         ` Stefan
2020-05-23  8:10           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-24  0:22             ` Stefan
2020-05-23  8:02     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-24 10:18       ` Stefan
2020-05-24 11:00         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-05-24 13:09           ` Stefan
2020-05-24 13:42             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-05-24 13:58               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-05-24 17:06                 ` Stefan
2020-05-24 16:47               ` Stefan
2020-06-06 13:30         ` Stefan
2020-06-06 13:33           ` Stefan
2020-06-06 17:37             ` Danny Milosavljevic
     [not found]               ` <46CD97B3-9994-4AB7-AA7D-4DE39AB7A238@vodafonemail.de>
2020-06-09 13:44                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-06-09 14:25                   ` Stefan
2020-06-11  4:21                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-11 11:36                     ` Stefan
2020-06-11 13:07                       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-11 13:19                     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-06-12 14:41                       ` Stefan
2020-06-14 18:56                       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-11 23:43                     ` [bug#41820] [PATCH] file-systems: Add record type <nfs-share> for a file system device Stefan
2020-06-20 13:52                       ` Stefan
2020-06-12  0:06                     ` [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via tftp/nfs Stefan
2020-06-14 19:09                       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-17 13:12                         ` Stefan [this message]
2020-09-05 11:25 ` Stefan
2020-09-06 13:07   ` Stefan
2020-09-06 14:35   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-06 15:14     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-07 22:59     ` Stefan
2020-09-08 22:37       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-13 17:46         ` [bug#41011] [PATCH] gnu: grub: Support for network boot via TFTP Stefan
2020-09-14  6:59           ` Efraim Flashner
2020-09-15 20:28             ` Stefan
2020-09-16  7:51               ` Efraim Flashner
2020-09-19 17:54                 ` Stefan
2020-09-20 11:47                   ` Stefan
2020-09-20 11:56                     ` Stefan
2020-09-26 10:52                       ` Stefan
2020-09-26 10:54                       ` Stefan
2020-09-26 16:13                         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-27 10:50                           ` Stefan
2020-09-27 10:51                             ` Stefan
2020-09-27 11:47                               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-14 12:34           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-15 22:10           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-27 11:57 ` bug#41011: " Stefan

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