GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #62925, Out of memory error initializing...
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bug #62925: Out of memory error initializing graphics on some Apple M1 systems
Submitter: | Hector Martin <marcan> | ||
Submitted: | Sat 20 Aug 2022 11:32:41 AM UTC | ||
Category: | Booting | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | None |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Open | Release: | Git master |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
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As of grub-2:2.06.r297.g0c6c1aff2-1-aarch64 as packaged by Arch Linux ARM (which is vanilla grub as of that git revision, other than grub.d patches and trivial packaging-related changes), initializing graphics fails on Apple M1 Pro MacBook 14" systems, and probably others, with an out of memory error. This leads to a degraded text console with broken menu graphic characters. This didn't happen with the previous package (grub-2.06.r261.g2f4430cc0-1).
The open source boot stack on these systems uses U-Boot as an EFI services provider. It seems GRUB is simply running out of heap as of recent changes. This trivial patch fixes it: