2006/525: New Boot Sparc

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:39:59AM -0700, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
>  In the network boot case the boot loader also needs to know how to 
> access and read from the remote source. Anything else would basically 
> be magic. :)

But it already does.  Though only with WANboot is it secure.  Teaching
grub to do HTTP and TLS won't suffice for x86: we need sort of key
storage, and short of a BIOS (or LinuxBIOS) extension to match the OBP's
then TPMs will have to be the answer.  But at least we can defer that to
another day.