On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:38 +0100, Will Wagner wrote:
I'm trying to understand how the allocation of DPRAM is done in the
function _mpc8xx_allocBd in cpm.c.
Can someone explain why nextBD is initialised as:
static short *nextBd = (short *)(CYGHWR_HAL_VSR_TABLE + 0x1F0);
Presumably this is so that redboot and an application can cooperate when
using the DPRAM? Why is this address chosen and when is it's contents
ever initialised?
Presumably it may not have been initialised as in _mpc8xx_allocBd there
is this code:
if ((bd < QUICC_BD_BASE) || (bd > QUICC_BD_END)) {
// Most likely not set up - make a guess :-(
bd = *nextBd = QUICC_BD_BASE+0x400;
}
I guess this is starting 0x400 into the DPRAM so that an apllication
doesn't reuse any DPRAM used by redboot? Is this correct? I can find
where redboot ever initialises this memory so I can't see how it works.
Any help in understanding this is much appreciated.
Look about 10 lines below the "static short" line you quoted :-)
This value gets set when the CPM has been reset.
The point is to keep track [minimally] of what DPRAM is in use
and, yes, one wants applications to know and respect the allocations
that RedBoot has already made.
The choice was just an unused place in memory. This region of
memory already holds similar data that is shared between RedBoot
and applications.