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Welcome to FoolOS
=================
Disclaimer
----------
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
This is a simple and useless "operating system", with very basic
features, sorry. It is the fruit of my fundamental explorations of
the x86 architectures, 32-bit protected mode, interrupt handling,
memory management, the floppy disk controller, networking as well as
VESA and a couple of other things.
Copyright M.Idziorek 2014 <m.i@gmx.at> unless stated otherwise!
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Features
--------
All features are only very rudiemntary and buggy.
* Runs in bochs (with cirrus) and virtual box.
* PIT support / Timing
* PIC support & Interrupt handling framework
* PCI bus scanning
* Physical memory manager
* Floppy disk driver
* VESA
TODOS
-----
Some things I would like to add someday:
* port c lib and gcc
* Filesystem (probably FAT)
* e1000 driver
* networking stack / webserver
* virtual memory managment / paging
* user space / ELF binaries support
* multitasking
* mouse
* simple window manager
Issues
------
* memory map may be larger than mbr, but 0x0000 is used to check for end.
* memory map location is hardcoded
* the first ~4mb of physical mem are reserved by mem manager (hardcoded)
* bootloader loads only 50 sectors of kernel into mem. 25KB!
* Makefile is hardcoded and contains some mistakes too!
* size of bitmap to track free blocks of physical memory is hardcoded to max.
* physical memory manager allocator naively implemented.
* kernel should run in high memory (~3gb) virutal mem. why? except v86 tasks?
* redesign keyboard interrupt handler (faster!)
* redesign command handling (not inside the interrupt!!!)
* implement a real shell (in user mode)
MEMORY LAYOUT
=============
FLOPPY IMAGE
------------
0x0000 - MASTER BOOT RECORD
0x0200 - kernel image (contains sotrage for interrupt desc. table)
0x8000 - file system will go here
RAM
---
0x1000
boot loader puts the kernel binary here.
0x7c00
first stage boot loader (loaded by bios) boot/mbr.asm
includes initial Global Descriptor Table!
0x7c00 + 3 (after jmp boot_16)
boot loader puts number of boot floppy disk here.
0x7c00 + 0x600
boot loader puts number of records in memory map in here!
0x7c00 + 0x400
the boot loader puts the memory map obtained from the
bios here before switching to protected mode.
0x8300
boot loader puts the vesa modes here!
0x9000
physical memory manager bitmap!!!
0xb000
memory above this is used for dma (by our floppy.c driver)
REFERENCES
==========
* LINUX KERNEL
* GNU HURD
* MINIX
* FreeBSD etc.
* xv6
* distributed OS?
* e1000 driver
* http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDev17.html
* http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/9.-Multitasking.html
* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/labs/lab6/
* http://wiki.osdev.org/Virtual_8086_Mode
* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html
* man syscalls (posix syscalls?)
MY NOTES BELOW THIS LINE
========================
Keyboard Driver
---------------
//some thoughts on redesign of the keyboard driver
//use uint8_t for proc_pos and buff_pos and a BUF_SIZE of 256 for auto wrap!?
// kb input ringbuffer
#define BUF_SIZE 256
kb_scancode kb_buff[BUF_SIZE];
buff_pos=0;
proc_pos=0;
buffered=0;
void kb_irq()
{
cli
//we get one interrupt for EACH scancode!
kb_scancode val=get_scancode();
// think about race condition if called while inside kb_proc();
if(buffered+1<BUF_SIZE)
{
kb_buff[buff_pos]=val;
buff_pos++;
buffered++;
}
else
{
//kb ring buffer is full;
}
sti
}
void kb_proc()
{
if(proc_pos!=buff_pos)
{
kb_scancode val=kb_buff[proc_pos];
proc_pos++;
buffered--;
stdin(scancode_to_char(val));
}
}
Linux Startup x86
-----------------
~ ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ~
Some notes on the Linux statup process, or at least how I understand it.
1. arch/x86/boot/header.S
Contains the header and linux 16 bit code.
This code should be entered with a bootloader at the address specified
within the header (as _start) which will put us at 'start_of_setup'
Direct loading will put us at 'start2' at the very start which will
show an error message
If everyhing goes right we will enter the 16-bit real mode C module
with:
call main ; should not return
2. arch/x86/boot/main.c
void main(void) will do some checks and detections (cpu,mem,..) and
invoke: go_to_protected_mode();
3. arch/x86/boot/pm.c
go_to_protected_mode() - will disable interrupts and set up the initial
idt and gdt descriptor tables before calling: protected_mode_jump() and
passing the address of code32_start.
4. arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S
back in assembly-world the actual transition is made inside
'protected_mode_jump' and we move on to 'in_pm32' where the data segment
is set up and we jmpl to the 32-bit entry point of the kernel.
5. arch/x86/kernel/head32.c (assumption!?)
void i386_start_kernel(void)
6. init/main.c
start_kernel(void)
setup_arch()!!
Interrupts
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arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h each entry is 8 bytes
ISA interrupts:
0x30 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
0x31
0x32
..
0x3f
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