Untitled_Kernel/src/gdt.s
Jake Holtham 20357559c1 The beginning of paging!
The kernel resides in the higher half, and as of now still identity maps the lower half for compatibility. Will not merge back to master until all the previous features work properly in virtual memory..
2025-07-15 14:52:48 -04:00

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global gdtr
section .gdt_sect
gdt:
;Null descriptor
dd 0x00000000
dd 0x00000000
;Kernel code segment.
;Limit: in 4kib pages. 0xFFFFF * 4K = full address space.
dw 0xFFFF
;Base: Start at 0. We want the whole thing.
dw 0
;ALSO BASE: bits 16-23. All zeroes, still.
db 0
;Access byte. Defines flags for access permissions to the segment. This segment is:
;RX, and code/data segment
db 0b10011010
;Next two segments are nibbles so I put them together (cant db only a nibble at once).
;Upper limit bits (right hand nibble) is all ones to fill out the full 4gib in pages
;Flags (left hand nibble) are set to say that the limit is meant to be read as pages, and we're working in 32bit.
db 0b11001111
;Final upper base bits. Still zero lol.
db 0
;Done! Now we move onto our next table entries, they are back to back.
;Kernel Data Segment
dw 0xFFFF
dw 0
db 0
db 0b10010010
db 0b11001111
db 0
;User Code Segment
dw 0xFFFF
dw 0
db 0
db 0b11111010
db 0b11001111
db 0
;User Data Segment
dw 0xFFFF
dw 0
db 0
db 0b11110010
db 0b11001111
db 0
;Task State Segment
;For a lot of this it's going to be zeroes so we can do it dynamically later (such as finding &tss).
;Really, we just want to set the access bytes correctly.
dd 0
db 0
db 0b10001001
dw 0
gdt_end:
gdtr:
;size of the gdt
dw gdt_end - gdt - 1
;location of the gdt
dd gdt - 0xC0000000