Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ieee1275: claim more memory

[Stefan Berger]

On 8/4/21 7:19 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> CC-ing Patrick.
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
> >
> > On powerpc-ieee1275, we are running out of memory trying to verify
> > anything. This is because:
> >
> >   - we have to load an entire file into memory to verify it. This is
> >     extremely difficult to change with appended signatures.
> >   - We only have 32MB of heap.
> >   - Distro kernels are now often around 30MB.
> >
> > So we want to claim more memory from OpenFirmware for our heap.
> Stefan, Patrick, Daniel, may I ask one of you to work on the [1]
> proposal. I want to have this solution implemented.

Is the design in [1] correct just that the patches need forward-porting?

  Stefan


> Daniel
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-06/msg00009.html
>
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