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Add support for UEFI HTTP Boot #210

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rgl opened this issue Oct 6, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #216 or #228
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Add support for UEFI HTTP Boot #210

rgl opened this issue Oct 6, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #216 or #228
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rgl commented Oct 6, 2021

Expected Behaviour

I expected to be able to use UEFI HTTP Boot to boot a machine.

Current Behaviour

Only PXE Boot is supported.

Possible Solution

I've got dnsmasq serving HTTP Boot at:

https://github.com/rgl/talos-vagrant/blob/6ce54f83e4066bc60415d697f5c4a7a6cd5ac561/provision-dnsmasq.sh#L53-L59
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mmlb commented Oct 6, 2021

Am I right thinking that you want to keep boot's dhcp support and detect a UEFI machine and serve the http script instead of iPXE binary?

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rgl commented Oct 6, 2021

Mainly replace PXE TFTP with UEFI HTTP and use it to serve ipxe.efi. All the rest stays the same.

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mmlb commented Oct 6, 2021

ahh that sounds like a really nice feature indeed!

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mmlb commented Dec 2, 2021

Re opening because I had to revert #216 (due to #225). I've split the one commit from this PR to multiple independent ones to facilitate bisecting (currently at https://github.com/mmlb/boots/tree/split-and-fix-http-boot-for-c2.large.arm for now).

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## Description

This is a revert of the revert that occurred in #217 + fix that caused the original revert.
There's also removal of what is effectively useless/dead code (isPXEClient/pxeClient var/handling).
I also removed the leading `/` from `/nonexistent` because a `/` is already prefixed and `//nonexistent` has bothered me for years.

## Why is this needed

#216 was a great contribution from @rgl, unfortunately we ran into issues on some of our Ampere eMAG systems (#225).
Turns out that the eMAG boot firmware just straight up ignores filename values if the response packet is marked as `PXEClient`.
#216 changed the logic subtly by setting the response packet's class as `HTTPClient` if http was supported by the booting machine, and otherwise setting `PXEClient`. Before #216 we would set `PXEClient` only for the dhcp responses that were going out to our tftp'd build of iPXE, the initial filename: response was `PXEClient`-less.

Once I put back the only `PXEClient` for our iPXE everything worked out fine again (tested using sandbox), but then I realized that now pxeClient was likely useless because I suspected iPXE did not care/require it. I tested this too and found that iPXE is happy to tftp a file provided by a `PXEClient`-less DHCP response. So why keep code around that is effectively useless? Less code is better than any code so that caused me to write up d1878bd.

Fixes #210
Fixes #225

This debugging also opens up the way to bring back #149 as that had to be reverted due to the same "always set `PXEClient`" issue that I was not equipped to debug easily/quickly then.

## How Has This Been Tested?

Lots of testing on EM machines using github.com/tinkerbell/sandbox's terraform support (I plan to clean up and PR https://github.com/mmlb/sandbox/tree/fix-terraform-and-add-arm64-support at some point).

## How are existing users impacted? What migration steps/scripts do we need?

Back to faster/better iPXE binary downloads by utilizing TCP/HTTP instead of UDP/TFTP.
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