Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-04-15 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On 15/04/2020 20:57, Brice Waegeneire wrote: On 2020-03-30 22:10, Vincent Legoll wrote: that's a great project, I hope to be able to lend a hand, here and there... Looks like you already started by packaging iPXE. :) Thanks! That one was a "release early", but I can't promise you a

Re: iPXE network booting (was Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network)

2020-04-15 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello Giovanni, On 2020-04-10 13:44, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] I never used iPXE but... please consider using iPXE (if possible) for Guix network booting and consider that this feature is a prerequisite for seamless remote desktop with Guix (using x2go or xrdp like the new LTSP is doing [

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-04-15 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello Vagrant, On 2020-03-30 23:16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: I was just thinking Guix needed network boot support yesterday! Happy to hear you're looking into it... I've been the LTSP maintainer in Debian for almost 15 years, so have a good amount of experience with network booting. LTSP was r

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-04-15 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello Vincent, On 2020-03-30 22:10, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, that's a great project, I hope to be able to lend a hand, here and there... Looks like you already started by packaging iPXE. :) Thanks! - Brice

Re: iPXE network booting (was Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network)

2020-04-12 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, in order to start the discussion and the project, what about the patch in [1] ? It's marked RFC as there are a few debatable points. And it can be enhanced (building the efi firmwares, etc.) [1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40579 -- Vincent Legoll

iPXE network booting (was Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network)

2020-04-10 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Brice and Vagrant Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2020-03-30, Brice Waegeneire wrote: >> I know it's quite late to submit a GSOC proposal but here it's. >> I would like to work on the project suggested by Danny to >> add PXE support to Guix. Which has been requested several >> times on IRC

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-03-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-03-30, Brice Waegeneire wrote: > I know it's quite late to submit a GSOC proposal but here it's. > I would like to work on the project suggested by Danny to > add PXE support to Guix. Which has been requested several > times on IRC and in the ML. This would get us a step closer > to provisi

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, that's a great project, I hope to be able to lend a hand, here and there... -- Vincent Legoll