xv6-65oo2/bootasm.S

#include "asm.h"

# Start the first CPU: switch to 32-bit protected mode, jump into C.
# The BIOS loads this code from the first sector of the hard disk into
# memory at physical address 0x7c00 and starts executing in real mode
# with %cs=0 %ip=7c00.

#define SEG_KCODE 1  // kernel code
#define SEG_KDATA 2  // kernel data+stack

#define CR0_PE    1  // protected mode enable bit

.code16                       # Assemble for 16-bit mode
.globl start
start:
  cli                         # Disable interrupts

  # Set up the important data segment registers (DS, ES, SS).
  xorw    %ax,%ax             # Segment number zero
  movw    %ax,%ds             # -> Data Segment
  movw    %ax,%es             # -> Extra Segment
  movw    %ax,%ss             # -> Stack Segment

  # Enable A20:
  #   For backwards compatibility with the earliest PCs, physical
  #   address line 20 is tied low, so that addresses higher than
  #   1MB wrap around to zero by default.  This code undoes this.
seta20.1:
  inb     $0x64,%al               # Wait for not busy
  testb   $0x2,%al
  jnz     seta20.1

  movb    $0xd1,%al               # 0xd1 -> port 0x64
  outb    %al,$0x64

seta20.2:
  inb     $0x64,%al               # Wait for not busy
  testb   $0x2,%al
  jnz     seta20.2

  movb    $0xdf,%al               # 0xdf -> port 0x60
  outb    %al,$0x60

//PAGEBREAK!
  # Switch from real to protected mode, using a bootstrap GDT
  # and segment translation that makes virtual addresses 
  # identical to physical addresses, so that the 
  # effective memory map does not change during the switch.
  lgdt    gdtdesc
  movl    %cr0, %eax
  orl     $CR0_PE, %eax
  movl    %eax, %cr0
  
  # Jump to next instruction, but in 32-bit code segment.
  # Switches processor into 32-bit mode.
  ljmp    $(SEG_KCODE<<3), $start32

.code32                       # Assemble for 32-bit mode
start32:
  # Set up the protected-mode data segment registers
  movw    $(SEG_KDATA<<3), %ax    # Our data segment selector
  movw    %ax, %ds                # -> DS: Data Segment
  movw    %ax, %es                # -> ES: Extra Segment
  movw    %ax, %ss                # -> SS: Stack Segment
  movw    $0, %ax                 # Zero segments not ready for use
  movw    %ax, %fs                # -> FS
  movw    %ax, %gs                # -> GS

  # Set up the stack pointer and call into C.
  movl    $start, %esp
  call    bootmain

  # If bootmain returns (it shouldn't), trigger a Bochs
  # breakpoint if running under Bochs, then loop.
  movw    $0x8a00, %ax            # 0x8a00 -> port 0x8a00
  movw    %ax, %dx
  outw    %ax, %dx
  movw    $0x8ae0, %ax            # 0x8ae0 -> port 0x8a00
  outw    %ax, %dx
spin:
  jmp     spin

# Bootstrap GDT
.p2align 2                                # force 4 byte alignment
gdt:
  SEG_NULLASM                             # null seg
  SEG_ASM(STA_X|STA_R, 0x0, 0xffffffff)   # code seg
  SEG_ASM(STA_W, 0x0, 0xffffffff)         # data seg

gdtdesc:
  .word   (gdtdesc - gdt - 1)                            # sizeof(gdt) - 1
  .long   gdt                             # address gdt