reduced complexity on master branch for now as i setup for gdt things

gdt.s

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+global load_gdt
+
+; lgdt can only be used from assembly so here we are
+load_gdt:
+	lgdt [eax]

loader.s

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ CHECKSUM 		equ -MAGIC_NUMBER
 ; size in bytes of stack 
 KERNEL_STACK_SIZE	equ 4096
 extern test_dispatcher
+extern load_gdt
+extern struct example
 
 section .text
 ; align all instructions to 4 byte boundary by the x86 instruction set law
@@ -19,7 +21,10 @@ align 4
 	dd FLAGS
 	dd CHECKSUM
 
+; sets up our gdt and segment selectors for later use
+	
 loader:
+	call load_gdt
 	call test_dispatcher
 
 .loop:

makefile

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ os.iso: kernel.elf
 	$(ASM) $(AFLAGS) $< -o $@
 
 # Building C objecets
-core/%.o: %.c
+%.o: %.c
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
 
 # Running (no recipes called) 

ports.s

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-; Helpers for frame buffer which pretty much have to to be 
+; Helpers for serial ports which pretty much have to to be 
 ; written in asm
 
 global serialport_write_byte

stlio.c

@@ -31,65 +31,16 @@ u32 read(const u32 n) {
 	return n;
 }
 
-char* tohex(u32* data, u32 size) {
-	static char ret[19] = {'\0'}; // 8 bytes + \0
-	ret[0] = '0'; ret[1] = 'x';
-	const char* map = "0123456789abcdef"; // muh 'tism
-	switch(size) {
-		// (unsigned)char/u8/s8
-		case (1): {
-			u8 idx;
-			u8 val = (u8)*data;
-			for(u32 i = 0; i<2; i++ ) {
-				idx = val & 0x0f;
-				ret[19-i] = map[idx];
-				vall >>= 4;
-			}
-			break;
-		}
-		// s16/u16
-		case (2): {
-			for(u32 i = 0; i<4; i++) {
-			}
-			break;
-		}
-		// s32/u64
-		case (4): {
-			break;
-		}
-		// s64/u64
-		case (8): {
-			break;
-		}
-		default: return "Bad-Size";
-	}
-	return "sadf";
-}
-
 
 void printf(char* fmt) {
-	u32 i;
+	// Variadic fuller version of print on seperate branch but its nowhere near stable/ready/working
 	u32 size = strlen(fmt);
-	for(i = 0; i < size;i++) {
+	for(u32 i = 0; i < size;i++) {
-		char c = fmt[i];
+		if(fmt[i] == '\n') {
-		switch(c) {
+			frame_buffer_newline();
-			case '\n': {
+		}
-				frame_buffer_newline();
+		else {
-				break;
+			write_char(fmt[i]);
-			}
-			case '%': {
-				/* only do something if the situation calls for it
-				 * NOTE: this call might not do anything interesting
-				 */
-				if((i+1) < size) {
-					write_char(c);
-					i += 2;
-				}
-				break;
-			}
-			default: {
-				write_char(c);
-			}
 		}
 	}
 }

stlio.h

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 #include "framebuffer.h"
 // Frame buffer driver
 
+// NOTE: not getting computed at compile time so we always have a call
 u32 strlen(char*);
+
 u32 write(const char*, const u32);
+
 u32 read(const u32);
+
 void printf(char*);