[OpenBIOS] Increasing dictionary space size

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Sun Apr 24 14:36:58 CEST 2016


On 23/04/16 17:03, Programmingkid wrote:

> How do we increase the size of the dictionary? I thought it would be as simple as increasing the DICTIONARY_SIZE constant, but that causes this error: 
> 
> ppc-elf-ld: section .romentry [00000000fffffffc -> 00000000ffffffff] overlaps section .data [00000000fff3c000 -> 000000010013c1d7]
> ppc-elf-ld: openbios-qemu.elf.nostrip: section .romentry vma 0xfffffffc overlaps previous sections

That looks correct, however you've increased DICTIONARY_SIZE so much
that the final address goes beyond 0xfffffffc which is the maximum limit
of the PROM area for PPC.


ATB,

Mark.




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