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authorAqua-sama <aqua@iserlohn-fortress.net>2021-02-02 22:27:27 +0200
committerAqua-sama <aqua@iserlohn-fortress.net>2021-02-02 22:27:27 +0200
commit36e8ee0cdaa904ee00710b1d2df16691729cc93d (patch)
tree16e3836af7ef9efa6da1bbde4248ae5ad956bf58 /boot.asm
parentlibk: add its own makefile (diff)
downloadkernel.cpp-36e8ee0cdaa904ee00710b1d2df16691729cc93d.tar.xz
Print some multiboot2 information
Diffstat (limited to 'boot.asm')
-rw-r--r--boot.asm28
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/boot.asm b/boot.asm
index e4897e4..d787d64 100644
--- a/boot.asm
+++ b/boot.asm
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
; Declare constants for the multiboot header.
-MBALIGN equ 1 << 0 ; align loaded modules on page boundaries
-MEMINFO equ 1 << 1 ; provide memory map
-FLAGS equ MBALIGN | MEMINFO ; this is the Multiboot 'flag' field
-MAGIC equ 0x1BADB002 ; 'magic number' lets bootloader find the header
-CHECKSUM equ -(MAGIC + FLAGS) ; checksum of above, to prove we are multiboot
+MAGIC equ 0xE85250D6 ; multiboot2 magic
+ARCH equ 0 ; protected mode i386
; Declare a multiboot header that marks the program as a kernel. These are magic
; values that are documented in the multiboot standard. The bootloader will
@@ -11,10 +8,19 @@ CHECKSUM equ -(MAGIC + FLAGS) ; checksum of above, to prove we are multiboot
; 32-bit boundary. The signature is in its own section so the header can be
; forced to be within the first 8 KiB of the kernel file.
section .multiboot
-align 4
- dd MAGIC
- dd FLAGS
- dd CHECKSUM
+header_start:
+ dd MAGIC
+ dd ARCH
+ dd header_end - header_start ; header length
+ dd 0x100000000 - (MAGIC + ARCH + (header_end - header_start))
+
+ ; optional multiboot tags here
+
+ ; required end tag (u16, u16, u32) = (0, 0, 8)
+ dw 0 ; type
+ dw 0 ; flags
+ dd 8 ; size
+header_end:
; The multiboot standard does not define the value of the stack pointer register
; (esp) and it is up to the kernel to provide a stack. This allocates room for a
@@ -29,7 +35,7 @@ align 4
section .bss
align 16
stack_bottom:
-resb 16384 ; 16 KiB
+ resb 16384 ; 16 KiB
stack_top:
; The linker script specifies _start as the entry point to the kernel and the
@@ -54,6 +60,8 @@ _start:
; stack (as it grows downwards on x86 systems). This is necessarily done
; in assembly as languages such as C cannot function without a stack.
mov esp, stack_top
+ push ebx
+ push eax
; This is a good place to initialize crucial processor state before the
; high-level kernel is entered. It's best to minimize the early