Re: [avr-gcc-list] Storing variables in external memory - suggestions

[Parthasaradhi Nayani]

--- On Fri, 5/22/09, David Kelly <address@hidden> wrote:

> All EEMEM does is this in eeprom.h:
> 
> #define EEMEM __attribute__((section(".eeprom")))
> 
> AVR Studio convention is that internal .eeprom starts at
> 0x00810000. So
> what I'd do if I were you and wanted the compiler to assign
> static
> memory addresses in an external eeprom would be:
> 
> #define    EEEXT
> __attribute__((section(".eeexternal")))
> 
> Then in my Makefile (or somewhere in AVR Studio) would add
> this to the
> linker definitions (am not certain 0x00a10000 is
> available):
> 
> LDFLAGS+=--section-start=.eeprom=00a10000
> 
> 
> If you put initialized definitions in EEEXT they will be
> lost. Your
> code has to write them in the external device because
> neither the
> compiler nor AVR Studio knows how. You can add a rule to
> the Makefile
> (if you are using make) to write a hex file containing your
> external
> EEPROM initial values:
> 
> %_eeext.hex: %.elf
>     avr-objcopy -j .eeexternal
> --change-section-lma .eeexternal=0 -O ihex $< $@
> 
> 
> Then you need a target such as this which will invoke the
> above rule
> (think it needs a blank line after):
> 
> object_eeext.hex:
> 
> 
> Finally, believe it goes without saying that you have to
> provide
> routines to access your external EEPROM device.

Hello David Kelly,

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Yes, I understand that initializing the 
variables will not actually save the vales into the memory locations. I will 
try a sample code and revert. Thanks once again.

B Regards
Nayani P