[OpenBIOS] Dictionary size limit per device instance
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 31 02:39:10 CEST 2007
> 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
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