On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:50:37PM -0800, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> The DHCP server will return a string in the boot_file field. If you >> want to indicate that this file should be obtained over http, the >> easiest way to handle this is to provide a boot file in the form >> (http,host)filename. Unfortunately dnsmasq uses commas to tokenise its >> configuration parameters and there appears to be no way to override >> that, which makes it impossible to provide a boot file in this form. >> Allowing the use of an alternative character avoids this problem. > > To my understanding, you can (and have to) use the url form in boot-file and > specify vendor-class-identifier to "HTTPClient" to let the UEFI firmware knows > this as a response to HTTP boot request and handle that boot-file accordingly, > then continue with that url loaded and run as NBP.
We're passing the bootfile to grub in order to obtain further configuration, so the firmware isn't relevant here. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
