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RP2040: Put time-critical code in RAM

Loading code from external flash increases latency by small amounts.
In practice the effect is quite minimal due to RP2040 integrated
cache, but there is enough RAM to do this optimization.
Petteri Aimonen 3 years ago
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1 changed files with 23 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 23 2
      lib/ZuluSCSI_platform_RP2040/rp2040.ld

+ 23 - 2
lib/ZuluSCSI_platform_RP2040/rp2040.ld

@@ -38,8 +38,23 @@ SECTIONS
         *(.dtors)
         *(.eh_frame*)
         . = ALIGN(4);
-        *(.text)
-        *(.text*)
+
+        /* Put only non-timecritical code in flash
+         * This includes e.g. floating point math routines.
+         */
+        *libm*:(.text .text*)
+        *libc*:(.text .text*)
+        *libgcc*:*df*(.text .text*)
+        *USB*(.text .text*)
+        *SPI*(.text .text*)
+        *Spi*(.text .text*)
+        *spi*(.text .text*)
+        *stdc*:(.text .text*)
+        *supc*:(.text .text*)
+        *nosys*:(.text .text*)
+        *libc*:*printf*(.text .text*)
+        *libc*:*toa*(.text .text*)
+        *libminIni.a:(.text .text*)
     } > FLASH
     .rodata : {
         . = ALIGN(4);
@@ -74,7 +89,13 @@ SECTIONS
     .data : {
         __data_start__ = .;
         *(vtable)
+
+        /* Time critical code will go here to avoid external flash latency */
         *(.time_critical*)
+        . = ALIGN(4);
+        *(.text)
+        *(.text*)
+
         . = ALIGN(4);
         *(.data*)
         . = ALIGN(4);