[ECOS] Regarding Size of ROMRAM applications

Giri Raja giri_amf@yahoo.com
Thu Aug 12 17:00:00 GMT 2004


No luck again. Should the board have some sort of
monitor program, or the application in ROMRAM mode by
itself includes routines to load in the RAM?

Thanks.

Giri.

--- Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:49, Giri Raja wrote:
> > My bad, I didn't use the arm-elf-size. I actually
> > clicked on the properties button on the windows
> > machine and it showed me the file size as 600K.
> But
> > this is what arm-elf-size gives me:
> > 
> > text    data     bss     dec     hex  filename
> > 23308   936     23932   48176    bc30
> > standalone_serial
> > 
> > I tried both ROM and ROMRAM options. It doesn't
> seem
> > to load from the flash at all. Is there anything
> that
> > I need to modify on the memory map files. I'm
> using
> > EB40A board.
> > 
> 
> Did you start from a fresh (i.e. clean tree) build? 
> It's been
> my experience that once I build for one startup
> type, if I change
> the configuration to another, things don't go right.
>  So, I always
> start afresh if I'm going to try a different startup
> mode.
> 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Giri.
> > 
> > --- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:55:41PM -0700, Giri
> Raja
> > > wrote:
> > > > this is a continuation of my earlier mail in
> the
> > > day,
> > > > but a slightly different question I have now.
> > > > my ROMRAM application is about 600K. Is that
> > > really
> > > > bif, I'm confused by this number. if it is
> ROMRAM
> > > > startup type, I guess the program will never
> run
> > > as my
> > > > RAM is only 256K. does this make any sense or
> am I
> > > > wrong.
> > > 
> > > What is telling you it is 600K? arm-elf-size? Or
> is
> > > that the size of
> > > the binary produced by objcopy?
> > > 
> > > Sometimes the binary has big holes in it because
> > > objcopy or the linker
> > > script is confused.
> > > 
> > >         Andrew
> > > 
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> > 
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