Both

hw/mcu/stm/stm32f7xx/stm32f767.ld
hw/mcu/stm/stm32f4xx/stm32f407.ld

already define the stack on CCM (called DTCM on the F7xx). Am I missing 
something here?

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Christopher Collins wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 04:02:05PM -0700, markus wrote:
> > I looked into moving the stack into the CCM memory of the stm32
> > mcu's - and although almost every linker script defines ".data.core"
> > sections and there are some defines in bsp.h's for section
> > attributes they don't seem to be used.
> > 
> > Is there some hidden magic going on or is the CCM reserved for
> > application code?
> 
> No hidden magic; CCM is mostly unused and is up for grabs.  I think
> there was some attempt to use this memory intelligently a while back,
> but as the number of supported BSPs increased, it became impractical.
> 
> When you say "the stack", do you mean the interrupt handler stack?  That
> sounds like a reasonable use of CCM (though you and others probably have
> a better sense of this than I do).  If this is something that users will
> want to do, it might be good to create a syscfg setting to control
> whether the stack gets put in CCM or normal RAM.
> 
> Chris

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