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Confusion re: hal_vsr_table


Greetings,

	I am in the process of getting redboot to run from flash on
custom hardware.  The custom hardware is built around an MPC850 &
so I am porting the Motorola MBX development board platform.  I got
my ecos sources out of CVS within the last three months.

Everything seems fine until global constructors are called
(cyg_hal_invoke_constructors).  A constructor is called that is supposed
to be at 0x304C but I found no code at this address.  My map file says that
something was supposed to be there though.  Here's a bit of my map file:-

 .text.__static_initialization_and_destruction_0
                0x00003014       0x38
//C/programming/redhat/ecos/ecos_build/redboot_install/lib/extras.o

.text._GLOBAL_.I.49000.__C_programming_redhat_ecos_packages_io_common_curren
t_src_ioinit.cxx2J8s4d
                0x0000304c       0x2c
//C/programming/redhat/ecos/ecos_build/redboot_install/lib/extras.o
 .text.serial_init
                0x00003078       0xc4
//C/programming/redhat/ecos/ecos_build/redboot_install/lib/extras.o

After a bit more investigating I found that the 'hal_vsr_table' is located
at 0x3000.  The hal_mon_init macro initialises the hal_vsr_table, wiping
out whatever was at 0x3000 before.
The trouble is that this is FLASH memory on my board
(there are actually SRAM chips there at the moment but it will be
FLASH soon enough) so if hal_vsr_table needs initialising then it can't
be located at this address (unless I change where flash & sram are
mapped in the 850's address range.  Is this what I need to do?).

I'm confused.  I want to get redboot to run from flash.  Where am I
supposed to located the hal_vsr_table?  I can see in the linker script
that it is located at 0x3000.  Can I move it?  Am I supposed too?


TIA,
	Jeff




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