Bug#793760: grub-pc: Autoload grub2's config file when netbooting for uEFI clients

[Steven Shiau]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 2.02~beta2-26
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Grub 2.02 does not provide the mechanism to automatically load a config file for uEFI network boot clients like that of PXELinux. It always let network boot client load grub.cfg. We need the ability for client to auto load that, like:
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-01-00-0c-29-68-f3-23
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A80101
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A8010
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A801
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A80
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A8
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0A
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C0
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg-C
(tftp,192.168.1.254)/boot/grub/grub.cfg

CentOS/Fedora distribution has a patch for this, as described here:
https://git.centos.org/blob/!!!!rpms!grub2.git/0dc71c7bacb66388590a4a8e457d30813ce45205/SOURCES!0100-Search-for-specific-config-file-for-netboot.patch;jsessionid=11wvmi6s9c8nr192bj7zhe61yg
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873406

Is that possible we can have the same patch applied in Debian?
Thank you very much.

Steven.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.57
ii  grub-common            2.02~beta2-26
ii  grub-pc-bin            2.02~beta2-26
ii  grub2-common           2.02~beta2-26
ii  ucf                    3.0030

grub-pc recommends no packages.

grub-pc suggests no packages.

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