Hello,

I have an at91 based board which starts from NOR flash. I have an ugly workaround in lowlevel_init.S that switching from slowclock to PLLA is done from the internal SRAM instead directly from NOR which is not possible as the NOR flash timing are also affected. So i copied some data around using existing an new labels. A new approach would be to link lowlevel_init directly at 0x00200000 (which is AT91SAM9260_SRAM0_BASE) but the code is located next to the "normal" .text segment. I've prepared a change to cpu/arm926ejs/u-boot.lds (I know it's still 2010.3 but that shouldn't matter now) which links lowlevel_init to 0x00200000. I added the symbols __lowlevel_init_start and __lowlevel_init_end to be used to copy the function from it's LMA to it's VMA address. I'm rather unsure if this will work as I thought, Of course more has to be done, like * Make SRAM address configureable * Only link to this if CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT is not defined * Maybe create a region for that * ... Any opinions, hints, more elegant methods?

diff --git a/cpu/arm926ejs/u-boot.lds b/cpu/arm926ejs/u-boot.lds index ee5eeb5..c368822 100644 --- a/cpu/arm926ejs/u-boot.lds +++ b/cpu/arm926ejs/u-boot.lds @@ -32,9 +32,16 @@ SECTIONS .text : { cpu/arm926ejs/start.o (.text) + *(EXCLUDE_FILE(*lowlevel_init.o) .text) + } + __lowlevel_init_start = .; + .lowlevel_init 0x00200000 : AT ( ADDR (.text) + SIZEOF (.text) ) + { *(.text) } + __lowlevel_init_end = .;

+ . = ADDR (.text) + SIZEOF (.text) + SIZEOF(.lowlevel_init); . = ALIGN(4); .rodata : { *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) }

Best regards Alexander