Reg initializing data in segments other than .data

[Prasad Venkata Boddupalli]

Hello,

In my linker script, there is a section '.shared_section', in which 
variables that need to be shared across multiple processors go. That 
section becomes '.shared_segment' in the elf executable. So, the linker 
script looks as follows:

...

.shared_segment 0x80800000 : {
     *(.shared_section)
}

Variables defined in '.shared_section' should be able to be initialized. 
That is '.shared_segment' should have the same semantics as the 'data' 
segment.

Is there any way of specifying attributes to that segment in the linker 
script so that linker actually copies the corresponding values of 
variables to the elf executable ? It would be preferable not to push the 
'shared_section' into 'data' segment.

regards,
Prasad.