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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kenneth J Davis
a593799eb0
add some comments regarding relocation of kernel during configuration 2024-02-10 17:38:19 -05:00
C. Masloch
d91c14723a kernel: optimise A20 check and enable/disable calls
Some assembly tricks:

* SMC instead of checking the XMS driver address
in the DOS DS stub,

* SMC so that the address goes right into a
`call far immediate` instruction,

* use `repe cmpsw` to compare multiple words (saves
space over the individual word compares),

* near calls to far functions use push cs to build
a far-call stack frame,

* segments 0 and FFFFh generated by segment arithmetic
instead of loading from memory,

* common case (A20 already enabled) made to be the case
where the conditional branch just falls through, which
may be slightly better.
2022-05-29 19:24:00 -04:00
Bart Oldeman
5ff361314c ia16-elf-gcc: eliminate DOSDATA, DOSTEXT and C use of TGROUP.
Now that it understands relocations those are no longer necessary.
2018-07-12 14:27:03 -04:00
Bart Oldeman
f6d62165e0 ia16-elf-gcc: introduce DOSTEXT and DOSDATA macros.
Using DOSTEXT(x) accesses x in LGROUP and DOSDATA(x) in DGROUP.
This is necessary since ia16-elf-gcc does not understand data
in far segments.

For non-macro'ed symbols, FP_SEG needs to be replaced by explicit
segment references.
2018-01-11 17:50:31 -05:00
Bart Oldeman
71a7d0d264 ia16-elf-gcc: provide GNU LD linker script and symbols to link kernel.
The resulting kernel and sys.com do not work yet (kernel prints 123 only).
Some functions in sys.com are placeholders.
2018-01-11 17:50:31 -05:00
Bart Oldeman
fbdbc4c25c C source code changes so the kernel can compile with ia16-elf-gcc.
Use "make all COMPILER=gcc".
Linking does not work yet with these changes.
2018-01-11 17:50:31 -05:00
KJD
c431157156 FreeDOS kernel current - 2041+svn1709 2012-10-14 20:08:06 -04:00