If some common used functions being programed into a ROM.

[lilzz]

And the user program would referenced those functions programmed into the ROM.
How does the linker hook up and referenced those functions in the ROM?
Anyone seen an example for that?

[PeterO]

None of your questions are relevant to the PI. Find a micro controller forum and ask them there.
PeterO

[PeterO]

There is nothing funny about my reply.

You are asking your questions on the wrong site. They seem to be related to micro-controllers and embedded systems development.
Find a forum dedicated to those and you'll stand a much better chance of getting the replies you are looking for.

Petero

[MarkHaysHarris777]

And the user program would referenced those functions programmed into the ROM.
How does the linker hook up and referenced those functions in the ROM?

A rom (?) like a usb stick and the PI? ... or do you mean an actual rom chip accessed by i2c or SPI?

[texy]

I've deleted some of the crud in this thread. Can we keep the light hearted banter to the off topic forum please.
Although I don't think we have established if the OP's question is off topic or not yet

[PeterO]

And the user program would referenced those functions programmed into the ROM.
How does the linker hook up and referenced those functions in the ROM?

A rom (?) like a usb stick and the PI? ... or do you mean an actual rom chip accessed by i2c or SPI?

No, she means a real ROM, not something accessed via a serial peripheral bus. If you don't know what a ROM is then you're not going to be able to help

As I said before the question is (almost certainly) concerned with developing code on microcontrollers for embedded systems where code has to be compiled to be placed at fixed,specific addresses in the memory map.
Compare that to the situation on a PI and you'll see why the question is unlikely to get answered here. Google will help as well

PeterO

[MarkHaysHarris777]

And the user program would referenced those functions programmed into the ROM.
How does the linker hook up and referenced those functions in the ROM?

A rom (?) like a usb stick and the PI? ... or do you mean an actual rom chip accessed by i2c or SPI?

No, she means a real ROM, not something accessed via a serial peripheral bus. If you don't know what a ROM is then you're not going to be able to help

Trying to find out what she means.

... by the way, a read only memory does not imply how its accessed (that's your paradigm) and has nothing to do with whether I know what a ROM is.

A real ROM can be accessed any number of ways... for your information a CD 'ROM' is also a read only memory... so is a DVD, so is an evil BlueRay disc... as is the ROM on every single i2c device (which is accessed serially).



PS We should probably wait until she responds ...

[jamesh]

And the user program would referenced those functions programmed into the ROM.
How does the linker hook up and referenced those functions in the ROM?
Anyone seen an example for that?

Are you using Linux? If so, you probably need to look up the mmap function and /dev/mem, which IIRC can translate physical addresses to the virtual addresses used in userland programs.

HOWEVER, how are you adding a ROM in the physical address space to the Pi? That's a (probably impossible) HW modification.