[gPXE-devel] FW: [gPXE] environment variable expansion in 'filename'?

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at gmail.com
Fri May 21 09:23:16 EDT 2010


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Miller, Shao
<Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> wrote:
> There was some recent discussion in regards to secure scripts; Stefan
> actually submitted neat patches to support signed gPXE scripts.  Such a
> gPXE client could verify the script before executing it.  Perhaps Stefan
> mentioned what he mentioned with this context fresh in his mind. :)

Yes, thanks for clarifying, Shao.  Today it doesn't make a difference
because gPXE doesn't have secure boot.  Even with secure boot it
should be possible to allow variable expansion in most cases.

Stefan


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