Data relocation when using LOAD_L2=STANDALONE
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Sorry for the late answer but I have been watching some tutorials and experimenting a bit.

First of all, thank you for the information.
To give a little update on my current state:

I am working with the files found in the boot code repo.
First thing I did was create a file called my_test_data.c which only contains data (integer, array, etc.) to see if I can relocate them during booting.

Let us look at the two interesting arrays:
1) int normal_arr[] = {0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555, 0x55555555};
2) int attribute_arr[] __attribute__ ((section(".my_test_section"))) = {0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666, 0x66666666};

The idea is to later on have my additional data in seperate files each with its own attribute.

Then I modified the linker script by adding this line in the MEMORY section:
CUT01       : ORIGIN = 0x1C020000, LENGTH = 0x1000

I also added to the SECTION section: (more than necessary but I wanted to make sure)
    .my_test_section :
    {
        . = ALIGN(4);
        KEEP(*(.my_test_section))
        _mts_start = .;
        *(.text.*)
        *(.text)
        *(.data.*)
        *(.data)
        *(.comment)
        *(.comment.*)
        *(.my_test_section)
        *(.my_test_section*)
        *(.my_test_section.*)
        *(.attribute_arr)
        *(.attribute_arr*)
        *(.attribute_arr.*)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        _mts_end = .;
    } > CUT01

I also created the map file to get a better understanding of what happens with the data in my_test_data.c (or rather the output file that gets generated from it).
Regarding the two arrays I can see them in the map file:

The normal_arr:
 .data.normal_arr
                0x000000001a000450       0x20 /.../bootloader/fc/my_test_data.o
                0x000000001a000450                normal_arr

The attribute_arr:
 .my_test_section
                0x000000001c020000       0x20 /.../bootloader/fc/my_test_data.o
                0x000000001c020000                attribute_arr

Now as you can see both of them are 36 Bytes which seems to be correct as both arrays are 8 integer.
But for some reason the attribute_arr doesn't end up in L2 at the address I specified (or anywhere else for that matter) but the normal_arr resides in ROM (which makes sense as it's part of the .data section).
I thought that adding the appropriate entries in the linker script and creating data with the section attribute should be enough but somewhere along the line it seems like I have made a mistake or several mistakes.
Maybe someone has done something similar and wants to share their knowledge?

Thank you,
LPLA
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RE: Data relocation when using LOAD_L2=STANDALONE - by LPLA - 06-16-2020, 02:53 PM

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