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Not yet... the good news is that iPXE supports the SMSC USB NIC on the Pi. I don't know if iPXE will work out of the box, but I certainly intend on porting the iPXE NIC driver as a standalone (and GPL-licensed, of course) SNP implementation so you can use it with UEFI's own PXE implementation or anything else (like, shudder, it's shitty network tools...).

The biggest possible barrier to that today, which is still unknown, is the quality of the USB host controller. NICs use bulk, but there's no guarantee that the host controller driver is good enough. Time will tell, I suppose...

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