What's the purpose of bsp_start_copy_sections?

[Sebastian Huber]

Some systems boot form NOR flash and later execute from RAM since this 
is faster.

On 12/01/15 14:52, Martin Galvan wrote:
> I was looking at the common ARM routines and noticed
> bsp_start_copy_sections appears to copy several sections from their
> LMAs to their VMAs. If we were to have a BSP for a board that stores,
> say, the .text section in ROM, bsp_start_copy_sections seems to be
> copying it to RAM. Is this correct? If so, what would be the purpose
> of doing that?

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