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

[Daniel Kiper]

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.

Daniel

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