The tmp buffer approach did add noticeable delay when booting with a full distro kernel and initrd.
This alternative implementation starts by adding a hook for a device specific malloc function into grub_disk_t, and a wrapper in disk.c making use of it. Leif Lindholm (2): disk: Add support for device-specific malloc function efidisk: respect block_io_protocol minimum buffer alignment grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- grub-core/kern/disk.c | 13 +++++++++++-- include/grub/disk.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
