JM60 Bootloader with Interrupts

richjones — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:45:39 GMT

I've inherited a JM60 application built using Processor Expert on CW 10.2. It has a serial connection to our main processor over SCI2 and uses interrupts and a custom protocol. My task is to create a bootloader so that we can remotely update the application firmware in the field. To that end, I've read a ton of discussions on here and (after a lot of wasted time and hair-pulling) realized that my only options are to implement a soft vector jump table or implement my bootloader without interrupts.

I have already implemented an interrupt-driven version by re-using the serial protocol from our application. I'd really like to keep it that way so that I can use common code. With a little rework, I'm sure I could abstract it a little better so that it could work either way, but I'm intrigued by an elegant jump table suggestion by kef in the following post: Re: Bootloader and Interrupt. I prefer this solution if possible because it should allow any interrupts to be used in the future by the application without having to manually redirect each one in the bootloader. It also keeps the bootloader as small as possible because I don't need those redirect functions.

I've implemented a JumpTable.c and h based on his code sample, and it appears to set everything up correctly, but I get a reset due to invalid opcode apparently when an interrupt is called.

When I browse the memory after initializing the jump table, I see that the vector table is set up correctly.

Memory:

0x0000FFC0 FFFFFFFF 1960195D 195A1957 19541951

0x0000FFD0 194E194B 19481945 1942193F 193C1939

0x0000FFE0 19361933 1930192D 192A1927 1921191E

0x0000FFF0 191B1918 19151912 190F190C 1909F0AD

0xF0AD is the address of _EntryPoint, and 0x1909 is the start address of the jump table in RAM.

Similarly, the correct jump offsets in RAM have the correct addresses according to the map file.

Memory:

0x00001940 70FC7DF0 FD1EDF33 CCF069CC EFAFCCF0

0x00001950 0F4B5CA0 92CAAC54 A0844322 80F0FD34

0x1948 has 0xCCF069, where 0xF069 which is AS1_InterruptError
0x194B has 0xCCEFAF, where 0xEFAF which is AS1_InterruptRx
0x194E has 0xCCF00F, where 0xF00F which is AS1_InterruptTx

Map file:

AS1_InterruptRx EFAF 60 96 1 .text

AS1_InterruptTx F00F 5A 90 1 .text

AS1_InterruptError F069 11 17 1 .text

_EntryPoint F0AD 51 81 0 .text

Strangely, now that I've cleaned up the code to make it more presentable to post, I don't get the reset, and instead the MCU seems to go off into space. When I switch from using the jump table back to using the standard vector table, it all works fine, and I get proper serial communication. It seems that the problem has something to do with the way the ISRs are called and/or return, but I can't figure it out, so any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

-rich

Original Attachment has been moved to: JumpTable.zip

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JM60 Bootloader with Interrupts