Bug#1060061: closed by Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode at canonical.com> (Re: Bug#1060061: grub-efi-amd64-bin: out of memory when loading initial ramdisk)

[Morten Hein Tiljeset]

> I'm afraid touching the memory management system in the 2.06 grub in
> stable releases is out of the question. The fixes involve a ton of
> patches and it's not really possible to cherry-pick them and the risk
> of regression is significant and out of scope for (only) a stable
> release.
>
> The only way we managed to in Ubuntu was to cherry-pick all the loader
> changes from rhboot, and then also cherry-pick the entire 2.12 memory
> management changes on top of it, and that caused plenty of regressions
> at each point we picked more changes...
>
> In my opinion, this is not a release critical bug breaking _existing_
> systems, but a request to enable additional hardware currently
> unsupported in debian.
>
> We will eventually backport the 2.12 grub to stable releases in
> the upcoming months. We may want to issue it via -backports at first,
> but if a security vulnerability comes in, this will eventually land
> in a point release.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

A debian-maintained backport of grub-2.12 (through -backports or
otherwise) would be very helpful. Is there any chance you would
consider doing this for bullseye as well as for bookworm?