How to use Kinetis entire RAM?

[ashesman]

Hi,

The linker file for K22 presents the RMA as two 64k blocks m_data and M_data_2.  Presumably this is to prevent the risk of locating across the RAM boundaries etc.  It locates the heap and stack into m_data_2 and bss into m_data.  But otherwise leaves m_data_2 as empty.

I need more RAM!  It seems odd to me not to have the unused space in m_data_2 used also for bss!

I tried to change the linker file and add a new section then locate my bigger arrays into this new section but I couldn't make it happen, instead the arrays just vanished from the map file!!!

Any advice on how to use all the available RAM?

Regards

Ashley

[Alice_Yang]

Hello Ashley,

Does this DOC can help you ?

Relocating Code and Data Using the KDS GCC Linker File for Kinetis 

especially this part :

Hope it helps

Have a great day,
Alice

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[ashesman]

Great, thanks that does help.  I had it all exactly like that but hadn't quite got the section definition right in the linker file...

[Alice_Yang]

Hello Ashley,

Sorry i'm not very clealy about your these words " I had it all exactly like that but hadn't quite got the section definition right in the linker file" , could you please describe it clearly ? Or i don't know what can i do for you .

BR

ALice

[ashesman]

Sorry.  No problem.  It is all sorted now.  I was trying to say "I had it almost right but not quite..."  Thanks for your help.

[Alice_Yang]

OK !