Re: reserving LMA space in linker script

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Darin,

> I can solve this by allocating a large enough space, but I don't
> want to leave holes in memory.  Is there any other way to get
> this sort of thing done?

Does the region for the duplicated .data section have to occur before 
.data in memory ?  If it can occur afterwards then you should be able to 
use your original linker script like this:

    .data : AT(_data_load) { *(.data) } > ram
    . = ALIGN(4);
    _data_load = .
    . += SIZEOF(.data);

Note - you will probably want to define a couple of symbols to hold the 
start and end addresses of your hole.

Cheers
  Nick