Bug#922797: Wish for inclusion of ntfs, ntfscomp and http modules

[Thomas Gaugler]

Package: grub-efi-amd64-signed
Version: 1+2.02+dfsg1+11
Severity: wishlist

win32-loader installs the Linux kernel and initial ramdisk file in the
win32-loader folder of the system drive.

The inclusion of the ntfs and ntfscomp modules into the
grub-efi-amd64-signed package would allow grub to access the
win32-loader folder residing on a NTFS partition even under a secure
boot regime.

See also:
https://bugs.debian.org/918863
https://salsa.debian.org/snippets/270

If http would be available in the grub-efi-amd64-signed package then
something like the following might bring the Debian Installer to life:

net_bootp efinet0
set root=(http,deb.debian.org)
linux
 
/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux
  priority=low vga=788 ---
initrd
 
/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz
boot

This approach uses the public http server of Debian and running your own
server for example in the case of using the tftp network protocol could
be eliminated.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)