removed jank functions and got a cursor to blink properly

framebuffer.c

@@ -19,21 +19,17 @@ void write_cell_fb(unsigned cell, char c, char fg, char bg) {
     Frame_Buffer[cell+1] = (fg & 0x0f << 4) | (bg & 0x0f);
 }
 
-/*  should be passing in a cell-position for position param*/
-void print_fb(char* str, unsigned position) {
-	unsigned relative_end = position + strlen(str);
-	for(unsigned i = position; i<relative_end; i++) {
-		write_cell_fb(FRAME_CELL(i), str[i], Green, White);
-	}
-}
 
 void clear_fb() {
 	for(unsigned cell=0;cell<AREA; cell+=2) {
 		write_cell_fb(cell, ' ', 0x00, 0x00);
 	}
 }
+
 /* generic test func for this module */
 void test_fb() {
 	clear_fb();
-	print_fb("adsf", POSITION(0,5));
+	write_cell_fb(FRAME_CELL(0), 'a', Green, White);
+	write_cell_fb(FRAME_CELL(1), 'b', Green, White);
+	write_cell_fb(FRAME_CELL(2), 'c', Green, White);
 }

framebuffer.h

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #define COLUMNS 80
 #define ROWS 25
 #define AREA ( COLUMNS * ROWS )
-#define POSITION(ROW, COL) ( (ROW * COLUMNS) + COL )
 
 // address of our frame buffer
 #define FRAME_BUFFER_ADDR 0x000B8000

loader.asm

@@ -20,15 +20,24 @@ align 4
 	dd CHECKSUM
 
 loader:
+	mov al, 14
+	mov dx, 0x3d4
+	out dx, al ; 14 tells the framebuffer to expect the highest 8 bits of the position
+
+	mov al, 0
+	mov dx, 0x3d5
+    out dx, al ; sending the highest 8 bits of 0x0050
+
+	mov al, 15
+	mov dx, 0x3d4
+    out dx, al ; 15 tells the framebuffer to expect the lowest 8 bits of the position
+
+	mov al, 0
+	mov dx, 0x3d5
+    out dx, al ; sending the lowest 8 bits of 0x0050
+
 	call test_fb
 
 .loop:
 	jmp .loop
 
-section .bss
-align 4	; aligned to 4 bytes for performance
-kernel_stack:
-	; (res)erve (b)ytes x
-	resb KERNEL_STACK_SIZE	; 4k of stack size in mem
-	; now we setup the stack pointer for our kernel 
-	mov esp, kernel_stack + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE