RedBoot ROM-startup linker script broken?

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originally posted by nigelatta@Dec 1 2006, 10:49 AM

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i&#39;m becoming very suspicious that our processor configuration isn&#39;t right. the cpu reset address is in sdram, so that&#39;s where the .entry section is ending up. your rom configuration shows the .entry section in flash along with .text, .rodata, etc.

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Probably makes sense - the Altera example design has a reset address at offset 0x0 in flash and an exception address at offset 0x20 in sdram.

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Right. It&#39;s potentially dangerous to point a reset address at volatile memory. All of the examples point to offset 0....likely to the start of some bootloader code.

- slacker