Hi all, we have just started getting deeper into LPC2478's memory map and related uVision 3.4 usage. We are trying to use scatter-loading files to define, besides the 64k SRAM, LPC's USB and Ethernet memory regions so to eventually decide to use them as general-purpose RAM. Doing this, we are facing a coupla problems, hoping someone out there can help us understanding. This is our C code trying to do the job :
// Place Vect1 at the beginning of RAM Byte Vect1[128] __attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x40000120"))); // Place Vect2 at the beginning of USB RAM Byte Vect2[128] __attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x7FD00100"))); // Place SumVect at the beginning of Ethernet RAM int SumVect[128] __attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x7FE00100")));
Writing this, we get the error message "L6971E : Section .ARM.__at_0x40000120 from object main.o with type RW incompatible with section HEAP from object LPC2400.o with type ZI in er RW_IRAM1". Should we have defined the same 128 bytes' array "__at 0x40000000" everything works fine. We think the address we have specified is correctly aligned and we really cannot see any reason why. We also tried to find a way to differently locate the HEAP (as well as the STACK that is mentioned somehow in different compilations), in a scatter-loading file without success. Then comes the second issue : trying to store a vector in the Ethernet RAM, once more not at the very physical beginning of the memory itself, the target is correctly created, but once in the debugging session everything stops with the message "Error 65: access violation at 0x7FE00000 : no 'write' permission". What above happens with the scatter-loading file either in its "default" configuration (just FLASH and SRAM defined) as well as defining the two additional 16Ks' wide RAM areas at 0x7FE00000 and 0x7FD00000. On the other side, we can surprisingly use the USB RAM without problems at any address. We are really newbies on such deep aspects of the LPC, so we ask your patience.... Thanks in advance for any help or hint anyone would post to help us understanding.