polka/src/boot.s
2016-02-27 12:34:31 -05:00

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ArmAsm

# Declare some constants for the multiboot header.
.set ALIGN, 1<<0 # Align loaded modules on page boundaries
.set MEMINFO, 1<<1 # Provide memory map
.set FLAGS, ALIGN | MEMINFO # This is the multiboot 'flag' field
.set MAGIC, 0x1BADB002 # Magic number lets bootloader find the header
.set CHECKSUM, -(MAGIC + FLAGS) # Checksum of above, to prove we are multiboot
# Declare a header as in the Multiboot Standard. We put this into a special
# section so we can force the header to be in the start of the final program.
# You don't need to understand all these details as it is just magic values that
# is documented in the multiboot standard. The bootloader will search for this
# magic sequence and recognize us as a multiboot kernel.
.section .multiboot
.align 4
.long MAGIC
.long FLAGS
.long CHECKSUM
# Currently the stack pointer register (esp) points at anything and using it may
# cause massive harm. Instead, we'll provide our own stack. We will allocate
# room for a small temporary stack by creating a symbol at the bottom of it,
# then allocating 16384 bytes for it, and finally creating a symbol at the top.
.section .bootstrap_stack, "aw", @nobits
stack_buttom:
.skip 16384 # 16 KiB
stack_top:
# The linker script specifies _start as the entry point to the kernel and the
# bootloader will jump to this position once the kernel has been loaded. It
# doesn't make sense to return from this function as the bootloader is gone.
.section .text
.global _start
.type _start, @function
_start:
# Set up some space for a call stack. The stack grows downwards, so esp gets set to the top of the stack.
movl $stack_top, %esp
# Very early initialization done here.
call kearly
# Global initialization done here.
call _init
# Here we go...
call kmain
# In case the function returns, we'll want to put the computer into an
# infinite loop. To do that, we use the clear interrupt ('cli') instruction
# to disable interrupts, the halt instruction ('hlt') to stop the CPU until
# the next interrupt arrives, and jumping to the halt instruction if it ever
# continues execution, just to be safe. We will create a local label rather
# than real symbol and jump to there endlessly.
cli
.Lhang:
hlt
jmp .Lhang
# 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