jankos/loader.asm
2019-01-23 17:38:12 -08:00

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; since we have no stack we have to create one for the OS
global loader
MAGIC_NUMBER equ 0x1BADB002
FLAGS equ 0x0
CHECKSUM equ -MAGIC_NUMBER
section .text
; align all instructions to 4 byte boundary by the x86 instruction set law
align 4
; dropping our magic and other things into memory
dd MAGIC_NUMBER
dd FLAGS
dd CHECKSUM
loader:
.loop:
jmp .loop
; section for our kernel stack
KERNEL_STACK_SIZE equ 4096
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