Bug 1594425

Summary:	[RFE] Support for UEFI HTTP network boot in ironic
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Mircea Vutcovici <mircea.vutcovici>
Component:	openstack-ironic	Assignee:	Julia Kreger <jkreger>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	mlammon
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bfournie, broose, dvd, marjones, mburns, pweeks, racedoro, srevivo
Target Milestone:	Upstream M1	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
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Description Mircea Vutcovici 2018-06-22 21:43:11 UTC

Description of problem:
At this moment OpenStack Ironic needs to chain-load iPXE to be able to network boot over HTTP protocol. UEFI 2.5 specifications have added support for HTTP boot, but ironic is not able to use it. This would lower the complexity of network booting when using UEFI, and it will lower the boot time with a few seconds.

Comment 1 Dmitry Tantsur 2018-07-17 14:44:19 UTC

I suspect this may be vendor-specific. I'm not sure the generic IPMI (or even Redfish) has means to configure UEFI HTTP boot.

Comment 2 Mircea Vutcovici 2018-07-17 16:23:37 UTC

As mentioned in the description of BZ, HTTP boot is supported in UEFI since version 2.5, which was released in 2015. It is part of the official UEFI specification.

For details see section "23.7 HTTP Boot" in http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf

For all UEFI specifications see: http://www.uefi.org/specifications.

Comment 3 Dmitry Tantsur 2019-01-02 11:58:21 UTC

Julia seems to be working on this upstream.

Comment 4 Ramon Acedo 2019-06-19 14:14:47 UTC

Planning this for beyond OSP 16

Comment 5 pweeks 2022-01-19 21:02:50 UTC

This RFE is not being prioritized, it's long been in the backlog of possible investment.
We are closing as wontfix, please re-open with business advocate, preferrably PM.