Re: [OpenBIOS] Dictionary size limit per device instance

[Asif Haswarey]

Segher,

I am looking into the possibility of contacting certain important people
to convince them about revising the IEEE-1275 std. If none of them are
interested, then I'll look into the possiblity of the openbios.info
group
getting enough control of IEEE-1275 to revive it and start applying
revisions (which would be subject to reviews).

-Asif

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[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Segher Boessenkool
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Dictionary size limit per device instance
> It's the FCode-Number limit, ie. 0x0fff.
> For details please look at:
> OpenFirmware IEEE-1275 (1994) spec. section 2.3.43.
>
> If I got this right, I am allowed to define/declare only 0x0fff number
> of constants and/or functions, variables, defers etc. for which the 
> tokenizer assigns a FCode-Number in the final tokenized FCode image.

Some Open Firmware implementations have a special FCode x'f4 which
allows FCode#s up to x'ffff; x'f4 followed by "high" byte, "low" byte.

Segher