variable mapping for STM32F769

[neums]

Hi,
i am using the STM32F769. The initialized variables are linked to ram0 (alias DATA_RAM) and not initialized variables are linked to ram3 (alias BSS_RAM) which are different as the mapping is as follows:

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    ram0    : org = 0x20020000, len = 384k      /* SRAM1 + SRAM2 */
    ram1    : org = 0x20020000, len = 368k      /* SRAM1 */
    ram2    : org = 0x2007C000, len = 16k       /* SRAM2 */
    ram3    : org = 0x20000000, len = 128k      /* DTCM-RAM */


What is the technical reason for this?

Thank you.

[Giovanni]

Hi,

Cortex-M7 does not support HW cache coherency.

DTCM is not cached, this is done to make cache handling not required when buffers are placed in BSS (most common case). You may put BSS in a different RAM but then you need to take care of cache coherence manually.

Giovanni