On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:20:20AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> > It's easy enough to add /net.alt's setup into the namespace being
> > constructed - there's a few places to do so.
> > But this misses that pulling the network stack from the new namespace
> > completely bypasses every namespace composition tool used in the rest of
> > Plan9.
> > Ron's warning on the safety of the tftp protocol is sensible.  Frankly,
> > that argues for dumping tftp from the distro entirely ;-)
> > The rest of the world has moved on to https service for these files.
> 
> Even for network booting (PXE)?

Here is the UEFI info for HTTP boot:
https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.11/24_Network_Protocols_SNP_PXE_BIS.html#http-boot

Most serious computer manufacturers support this by now; the ARM SBC
jungle is, as usual, a crap shoot.  The past decade in the datacenter
has been the long slow battle to move from ipmi and pxe to redfish and
httpboot.

Sadly, a lot of the networking side is still PXE-based, but progress is
happening even there.

khm

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