[GLOBAL loader] ; making entry point visible to linker [EXTERN kmain] ; kmain is defined in kmain.c STACKSIZE equ 0x4000 ; that's 16k. ; setting up the Multiboot header - see GRUB docs for details MODULEALIGN equ 1<<0 ; align loaded modules on page boundaries MEMINFO equ 1<<1 ; provide memory map FLAGS equ MODULEALIGN | MEMINFO ; this is the Multiboot 'flag' field MAGIC equ 0x1BADB002 ; 'magic number' lets bootloader find the header CHECKSUM equ -(MAGIC + FLAGS) ; checksum required section .text align 4 MultiBootHeader: dd MAGIC dd FLAGS dd CHECKSUM section .setup loader: ;here, we load our false GDT, used for having the kernel in higher half lgdt [trickgdt] mov cx, 0x10; mov ds, cx; mov es, cx; mov fs, cx; mov gs, cx; mov ss, cx; jmp 0x08:higherhalf section .text higherhalf: ; now we're running in higher half mov esp, stack+STACKSIZE ; set up the stack push eax ; pass Multiboot magic number add ebx, 0xE0000000 ; update the MB info structure so that it is in the new seg push ebx ; pass Multiboot info structure call kmain ; call kernel proper cli ; disable interupts hang: hlt ; halt machine should kernel return jmp hang [section .setup] ; this is included in the .setup section, so that it thinks it is at 0x00100000 trickgdt: ; our false GDT dw gdt_end - gdt - 1 ; gdt limit dd gdt ; gdt base gdt: dd 0, 0 ; null GDT entry db 0xFF, 0xFF, 0, 0, 0, 10011010b, 11001111b, 0x20 ; kernel code segment db 0xFF, 0xFF, 0, 0, 0, 10010010b, 11001111b, 0x20 ; kernel data segment gdt_end: [section .bss] align 32 stack: resb STACKSIZE ; reserve 16k stack on a quadword boundary