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RE: Capacity problem?
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 07:50, Daniel Lidsten wrote:
> I short clarification that i missed in the first email:
> When starting from flash then i copy all code to RAM and resume
> execution there. By doing this i can startup an image almost everywhere
> in the memory and then make it copy itself to RAM 0x0->.
>
Note: most PowerPC platforms have a special mode for this "ROMRAM".
You might look at some of them, e.g. the viper, to see how I've done it.
> Since i execute in RAM (even with flash startup) then i don't have any
> problems due to slow execution but maybe my CPU needs a special setup
> when executing from flash??
>
Are you telling eCos to run from RAM?
Also, note that I changed how caches were initialized on PowerPC
platforms on April 11. Before that, I don't think that RAM startup
would have explicitly enabled any caches. This is possibly a
difference between your FLASH/RAM and BDI/RAM sequences.
> > Also, on the MPC8xx, you might want to tune the number of
> > data buffers. The defaults I put in are very conservative
> > and could easily be swamped.
>
> Yepp, i changed from 4 to 16 a while back.
>
> Is there anyone that has changed the startup files (vectors.S or the
> board specific file like mbx.S) to setup some special registers ?? Maybe
> i have missed some....?
>
Again, you might look at some of the newer PowerPC platforms for
inspiration.
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