Adapting FreeRTOS demo to SAM7-P64

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barbart1 wrote on Tuesday, June 01, 2010:

Hi,

For 2 days now i have been struggling with adapting the FreeRTOS demo from SAM7X256-Eclipse to my Olimex SAM7-P64 board. I managed to compile the project, but when I try to change the Flash and Ram sizes in the linker script, I get two errors that say Ram and Flash are overflowed and certain sections won’t fit inside them. I tried to get rid of every task in the project, because I just want to have a simple pure blank project for future use. Can anyone help me with porting the demo application? I would be very grateful. I started with changing the mem sizes of ram and flash in the ld file, and tried to comment all the tasks from main, and after that deleting some object files from the linker script. But it doesn’t work. I’m running out of mana. Please help.

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davedoors wrote on Wednesday, June 02, 2010:

Look for configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE in FreeRTOSConfig.h. What is it set to? You will probably have to make it much smaller to switch to a chip with less RAM.

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barbart1 wrote on Wednesday, June 02, 2010:

It is set to

#define configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE		( ( size_t ) ( 24 * 1024 ) )

Is there some reference where I can find the meaning of all the #define’s? I would really appreciate some help with this. So what should I set it to?

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rtel wrote on Wednesday, June 02, 2010:

Search for configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE on http://www.freertos.org/a00110.html

Regards.

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barbart1 wrote on Wednesday, June 02, 2010:

Thanks very much I aprreciate your help, I changed the heap size to 1024 for now and managed to remove all the tasks from the demo succesfully. I can build the .bin now. But I am not sure if I have to change the values here:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;- Top of Stack Definition
;-------------------------
;- Interrupt and Supervisor Stack are located at the top of internal memory in
;- order to speed the exception handling context saving and restoring.
;- ARM_MODE_SVC (Application, C) Stack is located at the top of the external memory.
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IRQ_STACK_SIZE          EQU     300
ARM_MODE_FIQ            EQU     0x11
ARM_MODE_IRQ            EQU     0x12
ARM_MODE_SVC            EQU     0x13
I_BIT                   EQU     0x80
F_BIT                   EQU     0x40

Is it ok if I leave it just like that or should i change it?

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davedoors wrote on Wednesday, June 02, 2010:

The IRQ stack is separate and allocated by the linker. You can leave that value unmodified.

I suspect you will have to increase configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE again when you start trying to create tasks.

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tcsibi wrote on Wednesday, June 09, 2010:

I have made this for me.
http://rapidshare.com/files/397026535/freertosAT91.zip.html