Re: [OpenBIOS] Dictionary size limit per device instance

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > It's just an arbitrary numbers, we chose it a couple of years ago
> > when 256k was the usual size of system flash roms, so the resulting
> > openbios would always fit in a such a small chip with LinuxBIOS and
> > a compressed OpenBIOS payload.
> Well, Flash ROMs certainly have expanded since then!  I understand that
> sizes of 8 or 16 Meg are commonplace now, and that 4 Meg sizes are now
> considered obsolete (or at least, obsolescent) and that 8 Meg-gers are
> heading
> rapidly in that direction!

Not on commodity x86 PCs yet :-(

Segher