On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 13:32, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 12:18, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Good morning! > > > > Does U-Boot support booting from a NFSv4 file system? Explicitly > > neither NFSv2 or NFSv3 will work in our case, as both protocol > > versions are depreciated and no longer allowed by our IT department. > > Not that I am aware of, at least not upstream, there is work being > done to support booting using UEFI HTTP boot if HTTP is more straight > forward for network booting.
HTTP is *USELESS* in this context, and comes with huge complications (HTTP protocol diversity, absurd requirements, which are incompatible to filesystem requirements, and security requirements like TLS, as no IT department will deploy a bare HTTP server, only HTTPS). So NFSv4 is the better bet. Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur
