Bug 1594425 - [RFE] Support for UEFI HTTP network boot in ironic
Summary: [RFE] Support for UEFI HTTP network boot in ironic
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-ironic
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
unspecified
Target Milestone: Upstream M1
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Assignee: Julia Kreger
QA Contact: mlammon
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-22 21:43 UTC by Mircea Vutcovici
Modified: 2022-01-19 21:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-01-19 21:02:50 UTC
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OpenStack Storyboard 2003934 0 None None None 2019-01-16 15:41:25 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker OSP-2668 0 None None None 2022-01-19 21:04:40 UTC

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.
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