sdkconfig.base

1 year ago

esp32: Allow malloc() to allocate from SPIRAM. · a7d6ef3a

Angus Gratton authored 1 year ago and

moon2 committed 1 year ago


Also shrinks the "prefer internal" threshold to 8KB, any allocation larger
than this will try PSRAM first.

Change the mbedTLS config to use regular malloc() as well, instead of
internal only.  The default is set to internal-only due to to potential
physical security issue of readout via PSRAM on the original ESP32.
However, as MicroPython runs from plaintext flash and all other context is
in the MP heap of PSRAM then it's hard to see how worsens physical security
for MP.

This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.

Signed-off-by: Angus Gratton <angus@redyak.com.au>

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esp32: Allow malloc() to allocate from SPIRAM.

Angus Gratton authored 1 year ago and

moon2 committed 1 year ago


Also shrinks the "prefer internal" threshold to 8KB, any allocation larger
than this will try PSRAM first.

Change the mbedTLS config to use regular malloc() as well, instead of
internal only.  The default is set to internal-only due to to potential
physical security issue of readout via PSRAM on the original ESP32.
However, as MicroPython runs from plaintext flash and all other context is
in the MP heap of PSRAM then it's hard to see how worsens physical security
for MP.

This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.

Signed-off-by: Angus Gratton <angus@redyak.com.au>