/* Inspired by from https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot2/multiboot.html#boot_002eS */ /* boot.S - bootstrap the kernel */ /* Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ #define ASM_FILE 1 #include .section .multiboot .align 4 /* Multiboot header. */ multiboot_header: /* magic */ .long MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_MAGIC /* ISA: i386 */ .long MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE_I386 /* Header length. */ .long multiboot_header_end - multiboot_header /* checksum */ .long -(MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_MAGIC + MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE_I386 + (multiboot_header_end - multiboot_header)) multiboot_header_end: .section .bss .align 4096 stack_bottom: .skip 16384 # 16 KiB stack_top: .section .text .global _start .type _start, @function _start: /* The bootloader has loaded us into 32-bit protected mode on a x86 machine. Interrupts are disabled. Paging is disabled. The processor state is as defined in the multiboot standard. The kernel has full control of the CPU. The kernel can only make use of hardware features and any code it provides as part of itself. There's no printf function, unless the kernel provides its own header and a printf implementation. There are no security restrictions, no safeguards, no debugging mechanisms, only what the kernel provides itself. It has absolute and complete power over the machine. */ /* To set up a stack, we set the esp register to point to the top of our 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 $stack_top, %esp mov $stack_bottom, %ebp /* This is a good place to initialize crucial processor state before the high-level kernel is entered. It's best to minimize the early environment where crucial features are offline. Note that the processor is not fully initialized yet: Features such as floating point instructions and instruction set extensions are not initialized yet. The GDT should be loaded here. Paging should be enabled here. C++ features such as global constructors and exceptions will require runtime support to work as well. */ /* Reset EFLAGS. */ pushl $0 popf /* Enter the high-level kernel. The ABI requires the stack is 16-byte aligned at the time of the call instruction (which afterwards pushes the return pointer of size 4 bytes). The stack was originally 16-byte aligned above and we've since pushed a multiple of 16 bytes to the stack since (pushed 0 bytes so far) and the alignment is thus preserved and the call is well defined. */ /* Push the pointer to the Multiboot information structure. */ pushl %ebx /* Push the magic value. */ pushl %eax call kmain /* If the system has nothing more to do, put the computer into an infinite loop. To do that: 1) Disable interrupts with cli (clear interrupt enable in eflags). They are already disabled by the bootloader, so this is not needed. Mind that you might later enable interrupts and return from kernel_main (which is sort of nonsensical to do). 2) Wait for the next interrupt to arrive with hlt (halt instruction). Since they are disabled, this will lock up the computer. 3) Jump to the hlt instruction if it ever wakes up due to a non-maskable interrupt occurring or due to system management mode. */ cli 1: hlt jmp 1b /* Set the size of the _start symbol to the current location '.' minus its start. This is useful when debugging or when you implement call tracing. */ .size _start, . - _start .global _stack_bottom _stack_bottom: .long stack_bottom .global _stack_top _stack_top: .long stack_top