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Re: Linker Script Questions

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh at wantstofly dot org>
To: Pieter Arnout <pieter at gmail dot com>
Cc: crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:44:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Linker Script Questions
References: <178938c8bb58dff5c040455bda442109@gmail.com>

Haa die Pieter,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:17:58AM -0800, Pieter Arnout wrote:

> (1) I want to define a ROM and RAM memory region with part of the RAM 
> memory region as cacheable and the other part as having an uncacheable 
> path to the CPU.

This isn't done in the linker script.  Whether a memory region is
accessed as cacheable or not is typically determined by page table
attributes.

You might want to read "Computer architecture: a quantitative
approach" by Hennessy and Patterson, in which this is all very
clearly explained.

--L

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