; bkerndev - Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial ; By: Brandon F. (friesenb@gmail.com) ; Desc: Kernel entry point, stack, and Interrupt Service Routines. ; ; Notes: No warranty expressed or implied. Use at own risk. ; ; This is the kernel's entry point. We could either call main here, ; or we can use this to setup the stack or other nice stuff, like ; perhaps setting up the GDT and segments. Please note that interrupts ; are disabled at this point: More on interrupts later! [BITS 32] global start start: mov esp, _sys_stack ; This points the stack to our new stack area jmp stublet ; This part MUST be 4byte aligned, so we solve that issue using 'ALIGN 4' ALIGN 4 mboot: ; Multiboot macros to make a few lines later more readable MULTIBOOT_PAGE_ALIGN equ 1<<0 MULTIBOOT_MEMORY_INFO equ 1<<1 MULTIBOOT_AOUT_KLUDGE equ 1<<16 MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC equ 0x1BADB002 MULTIBOOT_HEADER_FLAGS equ MULTIBOOT_PAGE_ALIGN | MULTIBOOT_MEMORY_INFO | MULTIBOOT_AOUT_KLUDGE MULTIBOOT_CHECKSUM equ -(MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC + MULTIBOOT_HEADER_FLAGS) EXTERN code, bss, end ; This is the GRUB Multiboot header. A boot signature dd MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC dd MULTIBOOT_HEADER_FLAGS dd MULTIBOOT_CHECKSUM ; AOUT kludge - must be physical addresses. Make a note of these: ; The linker script fills in the data for these ones! dd mboot dd code dd bss dd end dd start ; This is an endless loop here. Make a note of this: Later on, we ; will insert an 'extern _main', followed by 'call _main', right ; before the 'jmp $'. stublet: extern _main call _main jmp $ ; Here is the definition of our BSS section. Right now, we'll use ; it just to store the stack. Remember that a stack actually grows ; downwards, so we declare the size of the data before declaring ; the identifier '_sys_stack' SECTION .bss resb 8192 ; This reserves 8KBytes of memory here _sys_stack: