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Defines the maximum number of open IO handles. Attempting to open more IO
entities than this value using `io_open()` will fail with -ENOMEM.
+* **#define : MAX_IO_BLOCK_DEVICES**
+
+ Defines the maximum number of registered IO block devices. Attempting to
+ register more devices this value using `io_dev_open()` will fail
+ with -ENOMEM. MAX_IO_BLOCK_DEVICES should be less than MAX_IO_DEVICES.
+ With this macro, multiple block devices could be supported at the same
+ time.
+
If the platform needs to allocate data within the per-cpu data framework in
BL31, it should define the following macro. Currently this is only required if
the platform decides not to use the coherent memory section by undefining the