Re: [PATCH] i386-pc: build verifiers API as module

2021-03-18 Thread Michael Chang via Grub-devel
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:23:40AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:14:34PM +0800, Michael Chang via Grub-devel wrote: > > Given no core functions on i386-pc would require verifiers to work and > > the only consumer of the verifier API is the pgp module, it looks good > > to

Re: [PATCH] i386-pc: build verifiers API as module

2021-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:14:34PM +0800, Michael Chang via Grub-devel wrote: > Given no core functions on i386-pc would require verifiers to work and > the only consumer of the verifier API is the pgp module, it looks good > to me that we can move the verifiers out of the kernel image and let > mo

[PATCH] i386-pc: build verifiers API as module

2021-03-18 Thread Michael Chang via Grub-devel
Given no core functions on i386-pc would require verifiers to work and the only consumer of the verifier API is the pgp module, it looks good to me that we can move the verifiers out of the kernel image and let moddep.lst to auto-load it when pgp is loaded on i386-pc platform. This helps to reduce