[ECOS] What's the definition of VROM memory region used for?
Cristiano Ligieri Pereira
cpereira@ics.uci.edu
Thu Aug 2 21:02:00 GMT 2001
Is this something specific to the IQ80310? Or it's something tighened to
the arm hal and hence should be present in all the ARM ports?
I don't remember to have seen this in other ports...
thanks again,
Cristiano.
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Cristiano Ligieri Pereira - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cpereira
> Its part of the trickery with fixed_vectors on the IQ80310. Flash is at
> address zero, but that is where the CPU looks for exception vectors and
> where the arm hal expects the exception vectors to be. VROM is the 4K
> page which maps virtual address zero (where the vectors need to be) to
> RAM so that the vectors are writable.
>
> --Mark
>
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