Open colemickens opened 4 years ago
netboot could definitely be useful! I thought U-Boot might support some IPXE type thing.
I think there's also a lot of benefit in limiting the writes in other ways like:
On the other hand, I'm not completely convinced that reducing writes is all that necessary. My application is cheap, disposable systems, so having to replace the SD card every 3 years or so isn't terrible. Having everything in a git repo means you can mostly just get a new card and start over (of course losing any state on the SD card).
Another option would be to boot straight from a flash drive, which can probably handle more writes.
I've added support for PXE via pixiecore. This uses x86_64 by default, and I'm not 100% sure how raspberry pi / ARM PXE works. But we can probably make some tweaks to let it send an RPI system as well.
I'm happy to have found this. It replaces some of my recent work and removes a lot of what I had remaining to do.
One thing I was trying to work on was having a tiny bootloader SD card that downloaded and booted a stage-2 from the Internet.
Do you see value in this, and/or have any interest in including such a feature in this project?