about linux v0.01 bootsect.S
Recently I'm looking at the linux 0.01 source code, since the bootsect.S in 2.6.11 and upper version is useless and it is a good place to start learning linux code, therefore I choose to trace the first version of linux. :P
I have some question in bootsect.S. The following is some of the code in bootsect.S linux v 0.01.
P.S the first version assembly code is using intel syntax instead of at&t.
mov ax,#0x0001 | protected mode (PE) bit
lmsw ax | This is it!
jmpi 0,8 | jmp offset 0 of segment 8 (cs) which is the second entry of the gdt.
gdt:
.word 0,0,0,0 | dummy
.word 0x07FF | 8Mb - limit=2047 (2048*4096=8Mb)
.word 0x0000 | base address=0
.word 0x9A00 | code read/exec
.word 0x00C0 | granularity=4096, 386
.word 0x07FF | 8Mb - limit=2047 (2048*4096=8Mb)
.word 0x0000 | base address=0
.word 0x9200 | data read/write
.word 0x00C0 | granularity=4096, 386
The booting process seems to be like the following:
move the bootloader code from 0x7c00 to 0x9000
jumps to 0x9000
set the segment registers.
load the system code to 0x10000 (the system code contains boot/head.S and init/main.c according to the Makefile)
load temporary gdt and idt with lgdt and lidt
enable A20 to access the 16mb physical memory.
set cr0 PE bit to go to protected mode
jump to 0x000000
the following is the Makefile for system:
tools/system:
boot/head.o init/main.o \
$(ARCHIVES) $(LIBS)
$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) boot/head.o init/main.o \
$(ARCHIVES) \
$(LIBS) \
-o tools/system > System.map
It seems like that the head.S and main.c is link together as the system binary which the bootsect loads into memory.
My question is if the system code(which entry is head.S/startup_32 ) is loaded in 0x10000 than why not jumps to 0x10000 instead jumps to 0x000000? Isn't it weird to jump to 0x0 since there is no code loaded inside there??
the following is the link to download the source code: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&开发者_StackOverflow;chrome=true&srcid=0B1F0m2rUn8BYMjQ4ZDQxZTUtODI5My00MGZiLTgwZDQtM2ZiZWQ2ZWQxYzIx
Here's the answer:
| It then loads the system at 0x10000, using BIOS interrupts. Thereafter
| it disables all interrupts, moves the system down to 0x0000, ...
and here's the code that goes with it:
cli | no interrupts allowed !
| first we move the system to it's rightful place
mov ax,#0x0000
cld | 'direction'=0, movs moves forward
do_move:
mov es,ax | destination segment
add ax,#0x1000
cmp ax,#0x9000
jz end_move
mov ds,ax | source segment
sub di,di
sub si,si
mov cx,#0x8000
rep
movsw
j do_move
If you look closely at the code, you'll notice that it indeed starts doing REP MOVSW with ES=0,DI=0 (destination) and DS=0x1000,SI=0 (source), that is, it moves stuff from 0x10000(=DS*0x10+SI) to 0(=ES*0x10+DI).
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