Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
Hey Jonathan!
On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 09:30:55AM +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
>
>On 2022/10/08 18:37, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> * Is PXE over wifi a thing? Never seen it...
>
>I've been poking around firmware setups of new laptops, and I'm intrigued by
>a new option that at least all the new Dell laptops have, called httpboot. It
>seems that you can just provide a URL to an EFI stub and then it would boot
>that (it's then up to whatever you do in that stub to boot something that can
>set up further networking etc), but it seems like a great thing to support in
>some future Debian release if possible, since you wouldn't even have to write
>as much as a boot USB disk in order to install your system.
>
>I'm not at all sure about where all of it's limitations are, and the
>documentation I could find on Dell's website are minimal, but if I have
>access to such a machine again I'll poke around and experiment a bit and
>write some notes for this list.
Nod. As you ACKed in IRC later, I did mention this in my mail... :-P
It's something that we should definitely be looking at, agreed.
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