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Nice! I have a few devices (from Pine64) that boot using u-boot, might be useful one day. > That limitation meant that downloading images or files from the net
by jraph 4y ago
Nice! I have a few devices (from Pine64) that boot using u-boot, might be useful one day.
> That limitation meant that downloading images or files from the network could only use protocols that were based on UDP, for example Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and Network File System (NFS)
PXE as always been a bit annoying for my use case. PCs have had UEFI for a long time now, UEFIs are complete OSes, but if I want to install an OS, a one shot situation, PXE feels overkill, with the need to fiddle with DHCP. It'd be great if I could just serve the image of the installer over HTTP, I'd be okay with typing the ip address of the HTTP server. If seems (almost) everything to provide this feature is there, it's just the last bits missing.
- vetinari 4y agoThe funny thing is that UEFI supports HTTP boot since 2.6 (i.e. since 2016), it is included in Tianocore, with DNS and TLS support, but for some reason, many vendors removed it from their implementations. I never understood why.