[OpenBIOS] Re: Paflof update

Segher Boessenkool segher at chello.nl
Fri Jun 28 16:52:31 CEST 2002



Parag Patel wrote:
> 
> >is it legal for an fcode program to overload words defined within the
> >lower space (i.e. 0x000-0x5ff)?
> 
> Actually, yes.  Look at the PCI bus binding for one example where rl!
> rl@ rw! and rw@ may be overridden to handle endian issues.

[reading the documentation for rl!]
Ouch ouch.  What an ugly hack.  Ah well, it won't cause too much trouble.


Segher


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