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tetros/bootloader/bios/protected_mode.asm
2025-02-17 10:45:02 -08:00

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NASM

SECTION .text
USE16
protected_mode:
.func: dd 0
.entry:
; disable interrupts
cli
; load protected mode GDT
lgdt [gdtr]
; set protected mode bit of cr0
mov eax, cr0
or eax, 1
mov cr0, eax
; far jump to load CS with 32 bit segment
; (we are in 32-bit mode, but instruction pipeline
; has 16-bit instructions.
jmp gdt.pm32_code:.inner
; gdt.pm32_code is a multiple of 8, so it always ends with three zero bits.
; The GDT spec abuses this fact, and uses these last three bits to store other
; data (table type and privilege). In this case, 000 is what we need anyway.
;
; Also note that CS isn't an address in protected mode---it's a GDT descriptor.
USE32
.inner:
; load all the other segments with 32 bit data segments
mov eax, gdt.pm32_data
mov ds, eax
mov es, eax
mov fs, eax
mov gs, eax
mov ss, eax
; jump to specified function
mov eax, [.func]
jmp eax