On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:03, Stephen.Kimball@bench.com wrote:
It seems that LinuxBIOS copies itself to _RAMBASE, which is 0x4000. Then it branches to 0x4000 into _start, which sets up the stack and calls hardwaremain. The address of hardwaremain from linuxbios_c.o
is
wrong. The address is not the Flash address and it's not the RAM address. Can someone explain how linuxbios_c.o is linked with RAM addresses?
What do you mean ? In the S2885 I built, the _RAMBASE is 0x4000 and hardwaremain is 0x5fe0 as you can get from the linuxbios_c.map. They are both in RAM. If you use "objdump -drS linuxbios_c.o" you will find the hardwaremain is at offset 0x1fe0 from the _RAMBASSE.
BTW, if you specify the -g option for gcc, you can use the -S option in objdump to see the source code with the disassebmly (-d).
Ollie
In the amd/serenade I built, the _RAMBASE is 0x4000 and hardwaremain is at 0x60B8 from the linuxbios_c.map. Hardwaremain is at 0x20B8 in the objdump. That all make sense. But if I step through the execution of _start from 0x4000 to the call to hardwaremain. I see it branch to 0x5F70 and the instructions at 0x5F70 match the hardwaremain in objdump. So I think it's really at 0x5F70 not 0x60B8. It's only off by 0x148 bytes.
I bet your hardwaremain isn't at 0x5FE0.
Steve