STM32MP13 RAM mapping

Applicable for STM32MP13x lines

This article describes how the STM32 MPU Embedded Software distribution maps the various software memory needs in internal and external volatile memories.


1 Overview[edit]

This article shows the default memory mapping defined by STMicroelectronics in STM32MPU Embedded Software. It uses a subset of all memory regions that are exposed at hardware level: customers may use other memory regions or aliases that are not shown here but are described in the STM32MP13 reference manuals.

2 Arm core characteristics[edit]

The integration of Arm® Cortex® cores sets some constraints on the device memory mapping: the main ones are listed in this article.

2.1 Reset address[edit]

Arm® Cortex® cores start running from address 0x00000000 on reset, which is why this address respectively points to:

3 Memory mapping[edit]

3.1 Overall memory mapping[edit]

The memory mapping below is a subset of all regions that are exposed at hardware level: it shows the default configuration used in OpenSTLinux but the customer may choose a different mapping to take advantage of other address ranges defined in STM32MP13 reference manuals.


DDRBackup registersBKPSRAMCAN SRAMSRAMSYSRAMROM
STM32MP13 memory mapping

4 Internal RAM mapping[edit]

4.1 Overview[edit]

SYSRAM and SRAM can be used by secure and non-secure Arm® Cortex® contexts as described in SYSRAM internal memory and STM32MP13 SRAM internal memory articles.

  • 124kB Secure region dedicated to OP-TEE mainly for secure monitor services.

SYSRAM is split in two parts:

  • 4kB non-secure region dedicated to SCMI shared memory for message exchange between OP-TEE and non-secure firmware

4.2 How to configure Internal RAM mapping[edit]

The memory usage is defined in both Arm® Cortex® contexts:

  • on secure Arm® Cortex®-A7: in OP-TEE device tree, using Reserved_memory mechanism
  • on non-secure Arm® Cortex®-A7: in Linux® device tree, using Reserved_memory mechanism

To ensure the consistency of the system, both memory declarations have to be updated according to the expected configuration.

4.2.1 SRAM[edit]

By default part of the SRAM is reserved for DMA chaining for Linux® features. It can be freed for some other purposes by removing the following declarations in Linux® device tree :

&sram {
    dma_pool: dma_pool@0 {
    reg = <0x0 0x4000>;
    pool;
};
&dma1 {
	sram = <&dma_pool>;
};

&dma2 {
	sram = <&dma_pool>;
};

5 DDR mapping[edit]

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