Miscellaneous Information

The misc folder contains the following:

• banks is a list of references to all Bank objects that the system image will contain.

• heap_size is an integer specifying the size of the bootconf program heap.

• space_barrier is an integer specifying, if required, the highest address of the supervisor address space and the lowest address of the user address space.

Example 5-10 is an extract of the SBC8260 board-specific configuration file, and contains the Misc definition.

Example 5-10 SBC8260 Misc Configuration

    <folder name='Misc'>
      <description>Misc configuration variables</description>
        
      <definition name='banks'>
        <description>list of system image banks</description>
        <type name='BankList'/>
      </definition>

      <definition name='heap_size'>
        <description>bootconf heap size</description>
        <int/>
        <const>0x00002000</const>
      </definition>

      <setting name='banks'>
        <condition>
          <equal><var name='BOOT_MODE' /><const>ROM</const></equal>
        </condition>
        <value index='size'><ref name='trampoline_bank' /></value>
      </setting>

      <setting name='banks'>
        <value index='size'><ref name='sys_bank' /></value>
      </setting>

    </folder>