This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Loading Bootloader from Flash to RAM

Hi,

i am using an STM32F103RB Controller and the KEIL uVision 5 IDE (5.17) and STM32CubeMX.

My bootloader resides in the first 16kB of the Flash 0x08000000 to 0x08003FFF, The data Data RAM-Region is shiftet to 0x20004000.

I wanted to copy the Bootloader to RAM before jumping to SystemInit function.

The Plan was to copy the whole Bootloader to RAM and afterwards change the Interrupt-Vectors in RAM from 0x08xxxxx to 0x20xxxxxx, then Jump to the SystemInitFunction in RAM. 

The Assembled Code uses PC - relative Adressing, so i thought it should be possible.

As a first test, i compiled the Bootloader once for Flash and afterwards for RAM and compared the HEX-Files.

I noticed that there are a few places in the File which seems to use absolute Adresses, not only in the Vector-Table where i expected it, but only a few places.

Does anybody know if there is a possibility to make the whole compile relative, or is there a better way to transfer the Loader to RAM?

I use interrupts in the bootloader for UART, CAN and a timer.

Thank you for helping me!

Chris