Sadly, I’ve been saying this for 27 years, but I’ve had very little impact. so it goes
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 13:03 R S <[email protected]> wrote: > "I would avoid using those buggy UEFI DXE at all cost." > > Ron's answer aged well: > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-99cj-7hg9-mp4m > (via https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97631) > > > -- > Network Security Analyst > Technology Department > <http://comicsanscriminal.com> > <http://comicsanscriminal.com> > Buncombe County Schools > ComicSans Awareness Campaign <https://comicsanscriminal.com> > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 10:35 AM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> use linuxboot, don't use UEFI payload. That's what we've done at >> Google, among other companies (ByteDance too). >> >> if you use linuxboot, then you get our pxeboot written in Go, and that >> can use http to pull the image down as well as tftp; http is literally >> (measured) 100x faster. >> >> I would avoid using those buggy UEFI DXE at all cost. A Linuxboot >> payload can be as small as a few MiB, which easily fits in today's SPI >> parts. >> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 5:21 AM Rao G <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Coreboot Developers, >> > >> > Very warm greetings! >> > >> > Trying to enable PXE along with UEFI payload on Elkhart Lake CRB >> platform >> > >> > Enabling Network stack requires below DXE drivers to be enabled >> > >> > >> > >> > >> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/vUDK2018/MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dsc >> > >> > >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/ArpDxe/ArpDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/Dhcp4Dxe/Dhcp4Dxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/DpcDxe/DpcDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/Ip4Dxe/Ip4Dxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/IScsiDxe/IScsiDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/MnpDxe/MnpDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/VlanConfigDxe/VlanConfigDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/Mtftp4Dxe/Mtftp4Dxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/SnpDxe/SnpDxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/Tcp4Dxe/Tcp4Dxe.inf >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/Udp4Dxe/Udp4Dxe.inf >> > >> > >> > >> > [Components.IA32, Components.X64, Components.IPF, Components.AARCH64] >> > >> > MdeModulePkg/Universal/Network/UefiPxeBcDxe/UefiPxeBcDxe.inf >> > >> > >> > Please send your comments/views on how to enable PXE with uEFI payload, >> It is also okay incase if there is an alternate approach to enable PXE >> without UEFI payload. >> > >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Ranga >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >
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