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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
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Hi George,

> > Is there a way of making this value system dependent?  On my
> > laptop this is fine, but for PowerVM w/TPM 1.2 I've been told this is
> > too small.

> Why not follow the spec?  PowerVM has enormous events because they
> were allowed by the 1.2 spec.  The 2.0 spec recommends 1M so I think
> they should be at least 1M.  Because they're large, they should really
> be dynamically allocated.
Make sense. Lets try 1M.
Thanks a lot for your input.


Kind regards,
Petr