IAR linker question(force RAM locations to fixed areas)

[ckuecker]

IAR linker question

Hello,

Has anyone used the IAR linker to force RAM locations to fixed areas? I am working with a Luminary 6965 processor that has a boot loader in the lower section of flash, and an application above it.

I don't want the application to use the RAM area the bootloader needs. I would like to define a small area at the start of RAM and have the linker put all the bootloader variables in there. I've tried defining boot and application RAM sections:

(in the .icf file)
define region BOOT_SRAM = mem:[from 0x20000000 size 0x10];
define region APP_SRAM = mem:[from 0x20000010 to 0x2000ffff];

then...

place at start of BOOT_SRAM {readwrite section bootdata};
place in APP_SRAM {readwrite, block HEAP};

I've used similar constructions to lay out the flash areas for the bootloader and application, and they work correctly. The RAM placement does not - the linker puts the bootloader's RAM into the app area, and does not use the first 0x10 bytes of RAM at all.

Any ideas what's going on here?

Chuck Kuecker