Dear Tom Rini,
In message CA+M6bX=bBFBaVm4aD2hVJfLXovtGjmKO9V40E+NyWtMtoaOV6A@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
'i2c_base' is correctly located in SRAM but 'current_bus' and 'bus_initialized' are located in CS0 SDRAM which is at the time of call not yet initalized. This fits to the crash behaviour: Accessing 'i2c_base' does not cause trouble. How can I move 'current_bus' and 'bus_initialized' to SRAM?
I guess you really, really must use i2c before relocation? If possible, this should be avoided in the first place.
Ah-ha! Good work. If you initialize them to a non-zero value, statically (and make sure the code doesn't assume they're 0 by default), this will change.
No, this is justy hiding the problem, and the next one who believes the value doesn't fit and changes it back to 0 runs into the issue again. Rather use an explicit
int foo __attribute__ ((section(".data"))) = 0;
so everybody sees the real intention.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk