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[Bug 1001623] [RFC] eCos FLASH startup from RedBoot


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Jonathan Larmour <jifl@ecoscentric.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Larmour <jifl@ecoscentric.com> 2012-07-19 02:52:18 BST ---
This sort of thing could just as easily apply to most other targets, on any
architecture. The reason this hasn't been done with those either is because you
can't guarantee the flash base address is what you think it is - e.g. in this
patch it's fixed at 0x20000. But on a target with Flash managed by FIS, it
could be located at arbitrary addresses. And you wouldn't be able to have two
applications stored in flash without another startup type.

And on many other targets with more RAM, we can use ROMRAM startup type, which
usually offers better speed anyway.

Basically things start getting complicated enough that you can't easily solve
everybody's requirements, at which point it may be better to leave it to them
to know what they're doing, e.g. by modifying the base address in the mlt files
themselves.

It might be able to be argued that we could add a CDL config option for a flash
offset, which is then added into the addresses in the ROM startup mlt files (it
would default to 0x0). But I'm slightly mindful of the fact that at some point
we would like to get back to having some form of new version of the old MLT
host tool, and the more exotic the customisations here, the more work it would
be to sort it all out later.

Jifl

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