Porting ecos to S3C44B0X

Jonathan Larmour jifl@eCosCentric.com
Mon Feb 24 15:03:00 GMT 2003


sachin k wrote:
> S3C44B0X Memory Map after reset
> 
> 
>                 +-----------------------+ 0x1000_0000
>                 |   SROM/DRAM/SDRAM    |
>             32mb    |               |
>                 +-----------------------+ 0x0e00_0000
[snip]
>     I am porting the ecos kernel to  S3C44B0X samsung board. the memory 
> layout of which is
>     shown above. I wanted to write the memory layout files for this. 
> What are the steps I
>     should follow and what are the other things i have to consider while 
> writing them

If your memory doesn't start at 0x0 your going to have a certain amount of 
difficulty with the ARM port. Unfortunately the ARM architecture HAL has 
got a limitation of assuming RAM starts at 0x0. You'll need to make some 
long-needed improvements to the ARM arch HAL to achieve this I'm afraid.

Jifl
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