Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:17:52AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>Hi Steve!
>
>On 6/10/19 4:37 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>   1. Update the docs to mention this - this is a new thing needed to
>>      get netboot working with Buster. It's *currently* inconsistent,
>>      as ia64 and armhf (as non-SB arches) are still using the old
>>      prefix setting. For the sake of consistency (in docs etc.), I
>>      propose to also update the d-i build for those arches to use the
>>      same prefix. But I acknowledge that will break existing
>>      setups. :-(
>> 
>>   2. Alternatively, we could tweak the netboot prefix setting as built
>>      by grub. I'm worried that this may also break things for some
>>      users. Do we assume (can we?) that all our grub netboot users are
>>      installer users (so we could use /debian-installer/$ARCH/grub)?
>>      If so, that might be a way to go. But is it a valid assumption?
>>      We'd be forcing all our grub netboot binaries to only sensibly
>>      work for d-i, and that worries me too.
>
>I don't have a strong opinion here regarding GRUB on ia64. netboot with GRUB
>on ia64 is currently untested on ia64, so I'm fine with breaking changes as
>long as the configuration is kept in sync - where possible - with the other
>EFI architectures and in a working state.

ACK, thanks for the quick response. It was specifically ia64 that I
was worried about here in (1) above, hence my deliberate CC. armhf in
Debian has only very recently gained UEFI support, so there's no
release history to worry about.