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From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
To: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
	grub-devel@gnu.org, rashmica.g@gmail.com,  alastair@d-silva.org,
	nayna@linux.ibm.com, chris.coulson@canonical.com,
	hanson.char@gmail.com, hchar@amazon.com, javierm@redhat.com,
	leif@nuviainc.com, phcoder@gmail.com, pjones@redhat.com,
	pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de, xnox@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/22] ieee1275: claim more memory
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:11:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69df0696-06e1-9165-c357-a367992be202@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721144532.y4lutwqg5mwr3dko@tomti.i.net-space.pl>


On 7/21/21 10:45 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 05:59:20AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>>
>> I think that my [1] should solve the issue generically. Instead of
>> bumping any of the static limits we have in place, we just drop them
>> altogether in favor of dynamically requesting additional EFI regions
>> whenever we realize that the currently mapped regions cannot satisfy our
>> needs. Like this, we can lower the initially requested regions, but
>> scale them to the specific needs if need be.
>>
>> I had planned to revisit this patch series much earlier, but somehow I
>> didn't yet find the time. Any comments on my approach would be welcome
>> though, and if we agree that this may be a viable route to go down then
>> I'd be happy to further pursue it.
> Patrick, thanks a lot! I will take a look at the [1] patchset next week.
>
> Daniel A., Stefan, may I ask you to take a look at the [1] too and tell
> us how it will work in your cases?
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-06/msg00009.html


I tried to apply these patches now. 2/3 and 3/3 need forward porting. 
The file grub-core/kern/efi/mm.c that they touch is EFI-specific and not 
even compiled when building for/on [IBM IEEE1275] PowerPC, so I don't 
see how they would help on that platform.

   Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-22 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-30  8:40 [PATCH v2 00/22] appended signature secure boot support Daniel Axtens
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 01/22] ieee1275: drop HEAP_MAX_ADDR, HEAP_MIN_SIZE Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:33   ` Stefan Berger
2021-07-14 16:21   ` Daniel Kiper
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 02/22] ieee1275: claim more memory Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:35   ` Stefan Berger
2021-07-15 21:51   ` Daniel Kiper
2021-07-16  3:59     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-21 14:45       ` Daniel Kiper
2021-07-21 15:24         ` Stefan Berger
2021-07-22 17:11         ` Stefan Berger [this message]
2021-07-28 11:17       ` Daniel Kiper
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 03/22] ieee1275: request memory with ibm, client-architecture-support Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:40   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 04/22] Add suport for signing grub with an appended signature Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:43   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 05/22] docs/grub: Document signing grub under UEFI Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:44   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 06/22] docs/grub: Document signing grub with an appended signature Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:46   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 07/22] dl: provide a fake grub_dl_set_persistent for the emu target Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:48   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 08/22] pgp: factor out rsa_pad Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:52   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 09/22] crypto: move storage for grub_crypto_pk_* to crypto.c Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:54   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 10/22] posix_wrap: tweaks in preparation for libtasn1 Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 12:56   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 11/22] libtasn1: import libtasn1-4.16.0 Daniel Axtens
2021-07-20 21:46   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 12/22] libtasn1: disable code not needed in grub Daniel Axtens
2021-07-20 21:47   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 13/22] libtasn1: changes for grub compatibility Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 13:04   ` Stefan Berger
2022-04-21  6:16     ` Daniel Axtens
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 14/22] libtasn1: compile into asn1 module Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 13:05   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 15/22] test_asn1: test module for libtasn1 Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 19:35   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 16/22] grub-install: support embedding x509 certificates Daniel Axtens
2021-07-12 20:24   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 17/22] appended signatures: import GNUTLS's ASN.1 description files Daniel Axtens
2021-07-19 21:09   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 18/22] appended signatures: parse PKCS#7 signedData and X.509 certificates Daniel Axtens
2021-07-19 22:02   ` Stefan Berger
2022-04-21  6:36     ` Daniel Axtens
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 19/22] appended signatures: support verifying appended signatures Daniel Axtens
2021-07-20  1:31   ` Stefan Berger
2022-04-21  7:10     ` Daniel Axtens
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 20/22] appended signatures: verification tests Daniel Axtens
2021-07-20 12:49   ` Stefan Berger
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 21/22] appended signatures: documentation Daniel Axtens
2021-07-19 22:24   ` Stefan Berger
2022-04-21  7:15     ` Daniel Axtens
2021-06-30  8:40 ` [PATCH v2 22/22] ieee1275: enter lockdown based on /ibm,secure-boot Daniel Axtens
2021-07-19 22:08   ` Stefan Berger

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