rp2: Allocate GC heap from unused RAM.
Borrowing an idea from the mimxrt port (also stm32 port): in the loader
input file memmap_mp.ld calculate __GcHeapStart and __GcHeapEnd as the
unused RAM. Then in main.c use these addresses as arguments to gc_init().
The benefits of this change are:
1) When libraries are added or removed in the future changing BSS usage,
main.c's sizing of the GC heap does not need to be changed.
2) Currently these changes make the GC area about 30 KBytes larger, eg on
PICO_W the GC heap increases from 166016 to 192448 bytes. Without that
change this RAM would never get used.
3) If someone wants to disable one or more SRAM blocks on the RP2040 to
reduce power consumption it will be easy: just change the MEMORY section
in memmap_mp.ld. For instance to not use SRAM2 and SRAM3 change it to:
MEMORY
{
FLASH(rx) : ORIGIN = 0x10000000, LENGTH = 2048k
RAM(rwx) : ORIGIN = 0x21000000, LENGTH = 128k
SCRATCH_X(rwx) : ORIGIN = 0x20040000, LENGTH = 4k
SCRATCH_Y(rwx) : ORIGIN = 0x20041000, LENGTH = 4k
}
Then to turn off clocks for SRAM2 and SRAM3 from MicroPython, set the
appropriate bits in WAKE_EN0 and SLEEP_EN0.
Tested by running the firmware.uf2 file on PICO_W and displaying
micropython.mem_info(). Confirmed GC total size approximately matched the
size calculated by the loader.
Signed-off-by: cpottle9 <cpottle9@outlook.com>
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