lesson 23, initial commit

23-fixes/boot/gdt.asm

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+gdt_start: ; don't remove the labels, they're needed to compute sizes and jumps
+    ; the GDT starts with a null 8-byte
+    dd 0x0 ; 4 byte
+    dd 0x0 ; 4 byte
+
+; GDT for code segment. base = 0x00000000, length = 0xfffff
+; for flags, refer to os-dev.pdf document, page 36
+gdt_code: 
+    dw 0xffff    ; segment length, bits 0-15
+    dw 0x0       ; segment base, bits 0-15
+    db 0x0       ; segment base, bits 16-23
+    db 10011010b ; flags (8 bits)
+    db 11001111b ; flags (4 bits) + segment length, bits 16-19
+    db 0x0       ; segment base, bits 24-31
+
+; GDT for data segment. base and length identical to code segment
+; some flags changed, again, refer to os-dev.pdf
+gdt_data:
+    dw 0xffff
+    dw 0x0
+    db 0x0
+    db 10010010b
+    db 11001111b
+    db 0x0
+
+gdt_end:
+
+; GDT descriptor
+gdt_descriptor:
+    dw gdt_end - gdt_start - 1 ; size (16 bit), always one less of its true size
+    dd gdt_start ; address (32 bit)
+
+; define some constants for later use
+CODE_SEG equ gdt_code - gdt_start
+DATA_SEG equ gdt_data - gdt_start