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authorMarti Bolivar <mbolivar@leaflabs.com>2011-09-12 16:10:10 -0400
committerMarti Bolivar <mbolivar@leaflabs.com>2011-09-12 16:10:10 -0400
commitc3e769c44e072faebd5dc87582ff832bc13ee184 (patch)
treedd161e668eaf3443e43b5f9acec3c91641bebe79 /support/ld
parent9515600e3f2ea133b02ea5dfcc573dd0aae20aa5 (diff)
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common_rom.inc: More comments.
Explain what's going on so unfamiliar readers have more hope.
Diffstat (limited to 'support/ld')
-rw-r--r--support/ld/common_rom.inc28
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/support/ld/common_rom.inc b/support/ld/common_rom.inc
index 05edf3c..7284492 100644
--- a/support/ld/common_rom.inc
+++ b/support/ld/common_rom.inc
@@ -64,17 +64,20 @@ SECTIONS
KEEP (*(SORT(.dtors.*)))
KEEP (*crtend.o(.dtors))
+ /*
+ * struct __cs3_region used during __cs3_start_c
+ */
. = ALIGN(4);
__cs3_regions = .;
- LONG (0)
- LONG (__cs3_region_init_ram)
- LONG (__cs3_region_start_ram)
- LONG (__cs3_region_init_size_ram)
- LONG (__cs3_region_zero_size_ram)
+ LONG (0) /* flags */
+ LONG (__cs3_region_init_ram) /* initial contents */
+ LONG (__cs3_region_start_ram) /* start address */
+ LONG (__cs3_region_init_size_ram) /* size of initial data */
+ LONG (__cs3_region_zero_size_ram) /* additional size to be zeroed */
} > REGION_TEXT
/*
- * .ARM.exidx exception unwinding
+ * .ARM.exidx exception unwinding; mandated by ARM's C++ ABI
*/
__exidx_start = .;
.ARM.exidx :
@@ -92,14 +95,16 @@ SECTIONS
_etext = .;
} > REGION_TEXT
- /* We allow users to allocate into flash with this section */
+ /*
+ * .USER_FLASH: We allow users to allocate into Flash here
+ */
.USER_FLASH :
{
*(.USER_FLASH)
} > rom
/*
- * Start of data
+ * .data
*/
.data :
{
@@ -111,6 +116,9 @@ SECTIONS
_edata = .;
} > REGION_DATA AT> REGION_TEXT
+ /*
+ * .bss
+ */
.bss :
{
*(.bss .bss.* .gnu.linkonce.b.*)
@@ -119,6 +127,10 @@ SECTIONS
_end = .;
} > REGION_BSS AT> REGION_TEXT
+ /*
+ * Constants needed for the pieces of CS3 we use during
+ * board startup; see libcs3_stm32_src/.
+ */
__cs3_region_init_ram = LOADADDR (.data);
__cs3_region_init_size_ram = _edata - ADDR (.data);
__cs3_region_zero_size_ram = _end - _edata;