Hi all: I recently start working on eCos. here is some problem I have after 2 week's study of eCos. I am working on platform TS7200 (www.embeddedarm.com), this platform prebuild eCos redboot. I have already compiled the libtarget.a with "rom start-up" option. when I am trying compile a very simple C program with this static library. ld complains about .bss is not in the region of ram. here is my mlt_arm_arm9_ts7200_ram.ldi dump:
#include <pkgconf/hal_arm_arm9_ts7200.h> #include <cyg/infra/cyg_type.inc> MEMORY { ram : ORIGIN = 0x00044F88, LENGTH = 0x01F98078 } SECTIONS { SECTIONS_BEGIN SECTION_fixed_vectors (ram, 0x44F88, LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_rom_vectors (ram, 0x50000, LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_text (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_fini (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_rodata (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_rodata1 (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_fixup (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_gcc_except_table (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_data (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) SECTION_bss (ram, ALIGN (0x4), LMA_EQ_VMA) CYG_LABEL_DEFN(_heap1) = ALIGN (0x8); SECTIONS_END } Redboot prompt: RAM: 0x00000000-0x02000000, [0x00044f88-0x01fdd000] available FLASH: 0x60000000 - 0x60800000, 64 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each. Here is the section dump of linkage map file: .ctors.55435 0x0005f178 0x4 /home/neo/ecos-redboot/ecos/ts7200_install/lib/libtarget.a(infra_diag.o) 0x0005f17c __CTOR_END__ = <code 336> (.) 0x0005f17c __DTOR_LIST__ = <code 336> (.) *(SORT(.dtors*)) 0x0005f17c __DTOR_END__ = <code 336> (.) *(.dynamic) *(.sdata*) *(.gnu.linkonce.s.*) 0x0005f17c . = ALIGN (0x4) *(.2ram.*) .got 0x00009780 0x4 .got 0x00009780 0x4 /usr/local/opt/crosstool/arm-linux/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.4/libgcc.a(_udivdi3.oS) .got.plt 0x00009784 0xc .got.plt 0x00009784 0xc /usr/local/opt/crosstool/arm-linux/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.4/libgcc.a(_udivdi3.oS) 0x00009784 _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ 0x0005ec40 __rom_data_start = LOADADDR (.data) 0x00009790 __ram_data_end = . 0x00009790 PROVIDE (__ram_data_end, .) 0x00009790 _edata = . 0x00009790 PROVIDE (edata, .) 0x0005f17c PROVIDE (__rom_data_end, (LOADADDR (.data) + SIZEOF (.data))) .bss 0x00009790 0x430c 0x00009790 __bss_start = <code 336> (.) *(.scommon) *(.dynsbss) *(.sbss*) Why the .bss did not follow the 0x50000 base address i specified? it looked like .bss section follow the address of got.plt section. To bypass this problem, I pass the Tbss=60000 option to ld. After all this, I have executable file ready, I use redboot to load ELF file to TS7200 by serial port(ymodem). When I issue Go cmd on redboot prompt, my system freeze. I tried either s-record and elf format. so the question is Dose redboot capable run ELF executable? Dose redboot capable run s-record executable? Do I need make sure that ram load base address must be the same as the ELF program entry address? PS. some question may off-topic, or even stupid. thank you all for your patient and suggestion NK