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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 21, 2012 - 02:04 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

I am writing a datalogger application for which i have to placed some function in flash memory and some data bytes as well. I have successfully done this type of work in avrstudio 4.12 with the make file.

Now i am using avrstudio 5, i have tried as follows:

1. LDFLAGS += -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x7100

where in 0x7100 is byte address equivalent to word address of 0x3880(tried passing word address as well).

2. I have to write byte 0x00 in flash with "program_page" which is tested function in the older version of avrstudio.

3. while implementating the flash page write...i remembered we have to put program_page (i.e. SPM instructions...i guess) into bootloader section

4.i am not able to find any link only objects (old version Makefile) type fields...where to add anything Wink

in this new makefile, any tutorial...?

Please revert on this as soon as possible...i am stuck...every help would always be appreciated..!!!

thanks and regards,
hgaurav

MAKEFILE :

Code:

################################################################################

# Automatically-generated file. Do not edit!

################################################################################

SHELL := cmd.exe

RM := rm -rf

USER_OBJS :=

LDFLAGS += -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x7100

LIBS := 

PROJ := 

O_SRCS := 

C_SRCS := 

S_SRCS := 

S_UPPER_SRCS := 

OBJ_SRCS := 

ASM_SRCS := 

PREPROCESSING_SRCS := 

OBJS := 

OBJS_AS_ARGS := 

C_DEPS := 

C_DEPS_AS_ARGS := 

EXECUTABLES := 

LIB_AS_ARGS :=

OUTPUT_FILE_PATH :=

OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS :=

HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH :=

HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS :=

HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH :=

HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS :=

LSS_FILE_PATH :=

LSS_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS :=

MAP_FILE_PATH :=

MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS :=

AVR_APP_PATH :=C:/Program Files/Atmel/AVR Studio 5.0/AVR ToolChain/bin/

QUOTE := "

ADDITIONAL_DEPENDENCIES:=

OUTPUT_FILE_DEP:=

# Every subdirectory with source files must be described here

SUBDIRS := 

# Add inputs and outputs from these tool invocations to the build variables 

C_SRCS +=  \

../ADC.c \

../GHCrimper32V_1.c \

../Keyboard.c \

../LCD.c \

../RTC.c \

../Serial.c \

../sevensegment.c \

../Timer.c

PREPROCESSING_SRCS += 

ASM_SRCS += 

OBJS +=  \

ADC.o \

GHCrimper32V_1.o \

Keyboard.o \

LCD.o \

RTC.o \

Serial.o \

sevensegment.o \

Timer.o

OBJS_AS_ARGS +=  \

ADC.o \

GHCrimper32V_1.o \

Keyboard.o \

LCD.o \

RTC.o \

Serial.o \

sevensegment.o \

Timer.o

C_DEPS +=  \

ADC.d \

GHCrimper32V_1.d \

Keyboard.d \

LCD.d \

RTC.d \

Serial.d \

sevensegment.d \

Timer.d

C_DEPS_AS_ARGS +=  \

ADC.d \

GHCrimper32V_1.d \

Keyboard.d \

LCD.d \

RTC.d \

Serial.d \

sevensegment.d \

Timer.d

OUTPUT_FILE_PATH +=GHCrimper32V_1.elf

OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS +=GHCrimper32V_1.elf

HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH +=GHCrimper32V_1.hex

HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS +=GHCrimper32V_1.hex

HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH +=GHCrimper32V_1.eep

HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS +=GHCrimper32V_1.eep

LSS_FILE_PATH +=GHCrimper32V_1.lss

LSS_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS +=GHCrimper32V_1.lss

MAP_FILE_PATH =GHCrimper32V_1.map

MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS =GHCrimper32V_1.map

LIB_AS_ARGS +=libGHCrimper32V_1.a

ADDITIONAL_DEPENDENCIES:= $(HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH) $(LSS_FILE_PATH) $(HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH) size

OUTPUT_FILE_DEP:= ./makedep.mk

# AVR/GNU C Compiler

./%.o: .././%.c

   @echo Building file: $<

   @echo Invoking: AVR/GNU C Compiler

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-gcc.exe$(QUOTE) -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -Os -fpack-struct -fshort-enums -Wall -c -std=gnu99  -mmcu=atmega32   -MD -MP -MF"$(@:%.o=%.d)" -MT"$(@:%.o=%.d)" -o"$@" "$<"

   @echo Finished building: $<

# AVR/GNU Assembler

ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean)

ifneq ($(strip $(C_DEPS)),)

-include $(C_DEPS)

endif

endif

# Add inputs and outputs from these tool invocations to the build variables 

# All Target

all: $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH) $(ADDITIONAL_DEPENDENCIES)

# AVR/GNU C/C++ Linker

$(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH): $(OBJS) $(USER_OBJS) $(OUTPUT_FILE_DEP)

   @echo Building target: $@

   @echo Invoking: AVR/GNU C/C++ Linker

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-gcc.exe$(QUOTE)  -mmcu=atmega32  -Wl,-Map=$(MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) -o$(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(OBJS_AS_ARGS) $(USER_OBJS) $(LIBS)

   @echo Finished building target: $@

$(HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH): $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH)

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-objcopy.exe$(QUOTE) -O ihex -R .eeprom -R .fuse -R .lock -R .signature  $(QUOTE)$<$(QUOTE) $(QUOTE)$@$(QUOTE)

$(HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH): $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH)

   -$(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-objcopy.exe$(QUOTE) -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load --change-section-lma .eeprom=0 --no-change-warnings -O ihex $(QUOTE)$<$(QUOTE) $(QUOTE)$@$(QUOTE) || exit 0

$(LSS_FILE_PATH): $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH)

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-objdump.exe$(QUOTE) -h -S $(QUOTE)$<$(QUOTE) > $(QUOTE)$@$(QUOTE)

size: $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH)

   @$(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-size.exe$(QUOTE) -C --mcu=atmega32 $(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS)

# Other Targets

clean:

   -$(RM) $(OBJS_AS_ARGS)$(C_DEPS_AS_ARGS) $(EXECUTABLES) $(LIB_AS_ARGS) $(HEX_FLASH_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(HEX_EEPROM_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(LSS_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS)

clawson

Posted: Apr 21, 2012 - 03:31 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Are you saying

Code:

LDFLAGS += -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x7100

did not work then?

certainly if you have functions tagged such as:

Code:

__attribute__((section(".bootloader"))) void boot_do_something(void) {

  // code that does SPM

}

this this should be located above the BLS. The .map file will confirm this.

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 11:49 AM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear cliff,

I have declared:

void program_page (uint32_t,uint8_t*); __attribute__((section (".bootloader")));

In my map file i got following:

Code:

Memory Configuration

Name             Origin             Length             Attributes

text             0x00000000         0x00020000         xr

data             0x00800060         0x0000ffa0         rw !x

eeprom           0x00810000         0x00010000         rw !x

fuse             0x00820000         0x00000400         rw !x

lock             0x00830000         0x00000400         rw !x

signature        0x00840000         0x00000400         rw !x

*default*        0x00000000         0xffffffff

0x00002024                program_page

how do i find out where BLS is located in map file..how to interpret it.....Any example code /make file would be useful..

thanks and Regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 12:11 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

OK here is a very simple example that works. Take from this what you need:

Code:

#include <avr/io.h>

__attribute__((section(".bootloader"))) void my_fn(void) {

   PORTB = 0x55;

}

int main(void) {

   my_fn();

}

Code:

LDFLAGS += -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x3F00

Code:

Linking: test.elf

avr-gcc -mmcu=atmega16 -I. -gdwarf-2 -DF_CPU=8000000UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fpack-struct -fshort-en

ums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunreachable-code --save-temps -fverbose-asm -Wa,-adhlns=test.o  -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF

.dep/test.elf.d test.o --output test.elf -Wl,-Map=test.map,--cref     -lm -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x3F00

Code:

//test.lss

Disassembly of section .bootloader:

00003f00 <my_fn>:

#include <avr/io.h>

__attribute__((section(".bootloader"))) void my_fn(void) {

   PORTB = 0x55;

    3f00:   85 e5          ldi   r24, 0x55   ; 85

    3f02:   88 bb          out   0x18, r24   ; 24

}

    3f04:   08 95          ret

Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <__vectors>:

   0:   0c 94 2a 00    jmp   0x54   ; 0x54 <__ctors_end>

Code:

//test.map

.bootloader     0x00003f00        0x6

 .bootloader    0x00003f00        0x6 test.o

                0x00003f00                my_fn

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 01:24 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,
i am getting following:
I have changed bootloader size to minimum i.e.256 words, start address 0x3F00

Quote:

Error 12 section .bootloader loaded at [0000546a,000054dd] overlaps section .data loaded at [0000546a,000056f9]

please guide,

thanks and regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 01:45 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Show the line that invokes your linker when you build. The equivalent of this from my post above:

Code:

avr-gcc -mmcu=atmega16 -I. -gdwarf-2 -DF_CPU=8000000UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fpack-struct -fshort-en

ums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunreachable-code --save-temps -fverbose-asm -Wa,-adhlns=test.o  -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF

.dep/test.elf.d test.o --output test.elf -Wl,-Map=test.map,--cref     -lm -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x3F00

My guess is that the --section-start is not being passed correctly.

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 02:57 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear sir,

My linker output:

Quote:

Invoking: AVR/GNU C/C++ Linker
"C:/Program Files/Atmel/AVR Studio 5.0/AVR ToolChain/bin/avr-gcc.exe" -mmcu=atmega32 -Wl,-Map=GHCrimper32V_1.map -o GHCrimper32V_1.elf ADC.o GHCrimper32V_1.o Keyboard.o LCD.o RTC.o Serial.o sevensegment.o Timer.o
D:\Software\Projects\GHCrimper\Code\GHCrimper32V_1\GHCrimper32V_1\Release(1,1): section .bootloader loaded at [000053e0,00005453] overlaps section .data loaded at [000053e0,0000566f]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [GHCrimper32V_1.elf] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `D:/Software/Projects/GHCrimper/Code/GHCrimper32V_1/GHCrimper32V_1/Release'
Done executing task "RunAvrGCC" -- FAILED.

please help
....hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 03:23 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Where in that do you see anything about:

Code:

-Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=

??

In the first post you said:

Code:

LDFLAGS += -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x7100

I would therefore suggest that the Makefile where this has been entered is NOT being used as the Makefile to actually build the project. That is your problem here.

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 07:20 AM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

I am using Release mode and in project settings i have selected build with external makefile option (Makefile in the release folder).. with the changes in ldflags in makefile....it is as simple as that i guess ....please correct me on this if any....

thanks and regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 09:28 AM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

The rule to invoke the linker:

Code:

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-gcc.exe$(QUOTE)  -mmcu=atmega32  -Wl,-Map=$(MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) -o$(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(OBJS_AS_ARGS) $(USER_OBJS) $(LIBS) 

does not appear to use LDFLAGS? Now if you allow a Makefile to operate it's intrinsic rules then LDFLAGS is used automatically for the linker invocation (ISTR) but if you have your own rule for invoking the linker you need to pass LDFLAGS manually. The Mfile template has this:
# Link: create ELF output file from object files.

Code:

.SECONDARY : $(TARGET).elf

.PRECIOUS : $(OBJ)

%.elf: $(OBJ)

   @echo

   @echo $(MSG_LINKING) $@

   $(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $^ --output $@ $(LDFLAGS)

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 03:13 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

I am very sorry to say this...i am not able to interpret it...please elaborate the method...

thanks and regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 03:15 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Make this:

Code:

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-gcc.exe$(QUOTE)  -mmcu=atmega32  -Wl,-Map=$(MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) -o$(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(OBJS_AS_ARGS) $(USER_OBJS) $(LIBS) 

into this:

Code:

   $(QUOTE)$(AVR_APP_PATH)avr-gcc.exe$(QUOTE)  -mmcu=atmega32  $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-Map=$(MAP_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) -o$(OUTPUT_FILE_PATH_AS_ARGS) $(OBJS_AS_ARGS) $(USER_OBJS) $(LIBS) 

(I have added $(LDFLAGS) to it).

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 12:12 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

After updating the makefile with ldflags: i have following errors

Quote:

Invoking: AVR/GNU C/C++ Linker
"C:/Program Files/Atmel/AVR Studio 5.0/AVR ToolChain/bin/avr-gcc.exe" -mmcu=atmega32 -Wl,--section-start=.bootloader=0x3F00 -Wl,-Map=GHCrimper32V_1.map -o GHCrimper32V_1.elf ADC.o GHCrimper32V_1.o Keyboard.o LCD.o RTC.o Serial.o sevensegment.o Timer.o
D:\Software\Projects\GHCrimper\Code\GHCrimper32V_1\GHCrimper32V_1\Release(1,1): section .bootloader loaded at [00003f00,00003f73] overlaps section .text loaded at [00000000,00005597]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [GHCrimper32V_1.elf] Error 1

Please guide me on this

regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 12:49 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Quote:

.bootloader loaded at [00003f00,00003f73] overlaps section .text loaded at [00000000,00005597]

Looks like 3F00 is the wrong address. As this is a 32K micro I'd expect any bootloader to be located above 0x7000. So 0x3F00 is probably a word address that must be doubled. Try changing it to 0x7E00 instead.

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 02:03 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

Thanks for valued support...now the program_page function is in BLS now next phase of difficulties started as i am not able to write 0x00 value in flash....

Code:

#define WRADDFLASH 0x5F00

unsigned int buf[128]={0};

for(page=WRADDFLASH;page<=(0x7000);page+=0x80){ 

      program_page(page,buf);

   }

//Program Page function:

/* Function to Write data into Flash */

void program_page (uint32_t page, uint8_t *buf)

{

    uint16_t i;

    uint8_t sreg;

    sreg = SREG;

    cli();                            //Disable all the interrupts

    eeprom_busy_wait ();              //Wait till EEPROM is busy

    boot_page_erase (page);           //Erase page

    boot_spm_busy_wait ();            //Wait until the memory is erased.

    for (i=0; i<SPM_PAGESIZE; i+=2){  //Set up little-endian word.

        uint16_t w = *buf++;

        w += (*buf++) << 8;

        boot_page_fill (page + i, w); //Fill the temporary buffer

    }//End of for()

    boot_page_write (page);           //Store buffer in flash page.

    boot_spm_busy_wait();             //Wait until the memory is written.

    boot_rww_enable ();               //Enable the read/write section

    SREG = sreg;

}

Please guide on this....thanks

best regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 02:19 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

What happens in the simulator (or better still a real AVR if you have a debugger) ?

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 02:27 PM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

I have programmed the atmega and after some time read its flash through mkII...hope to saw 0x00 bytes written on the desired location...but wont got the success....

Thanks and Regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 02:40 PM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Well it's odd because I can see your code is pretty much that example at the top of boot.h and I've used the very same (mega16 not mega32) myself and know it works well. I cannot immediately spot anything you are doing wrong and you've already spotted the one thing that caused me a problem (I thought the "page" parameter was a 64/128/256 byte page number) but as you are doing it's really just and address and you are correctly stepping it on by 0x80 each time. So, like I say, on the surface that code LOOKS like it should be working.

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hgaurav

Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 08:13 AM

Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 130

Dear Sir,

I need to confirm one thing....if flash page is to be written, our program_page (SPM Instructions) should be inside the BLS...??

If that is the case my program should work...god knows...whats going wrong... i must see an astrologer..hehe Wink

....need your opinion on this...

regards,
hgaurav

clawson

Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:34 AM

Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Posts: 62281
Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England

Quote:

.if flash page is to be written, our program_page (SPM Instructions) should be inside the BLS...

Yes but that's what all the section-start stuff was about.

Oh wait a minute though. I don't see you doing anything to position your functions into that section. What you need is for any functions that do SPM change them as follows:

Code:

void program_page (uint32_t page, uint8_t *buf)

{

becomes

Code:

void BOOTLOADER_SECTION program_page (uint32_t page, uint8_t *buf)

{

That BOOTLOADER_SECTION macro is defined in boot.h as:

Code:

#define BOOTLOADER_SECTION __attribute__ ((section (".bootloader")))

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