#include "../includes/gdt.h" /* Code taken from http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/gdt.htm with some minor tweaks. */ struct gdt_entry gdt_entries[3]; struct gdt gdt_ptr; /* Should be called by main. This will setup the special GDT * pointer, set up the first 3 entries in our GDT, and then * finally call load_gdt() in our assembler file in order * to tell the processor where the new GDT is and update the * new segment registers */ void gdt_install() { /* Setup the GDT pointer and the size of the table */ gdt_ptr.size = sizeof(struct gdt_entry) * 3 - 1; gdt_ptr.address = (unsigned int) &gdt_entries; /* Our NULL descriptor */ gdt_set_gate(0, 0, 0, 0, &gdt_entries[0]); /* The second entry is our Code Segment. The base address * is 0, the limit is 4GBytes, it uses 4KByte granularity, * uses 32-bit opcodes, and is a Code Segment descriptor. * Please check the table above in the tutorial in order * to see exactly what each value means */ gdt_set_gate(0, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x9A, 0xCF, &gdt_entries[1]); /* The third entry is our Data Segment. It's EXACTLY the * same as our code segment, but the descriptor type in * this entry's access byte says it's a Data Segment */ gdt_set_gate(0, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x92, 0xCF, &gdt_entries[2]); /* Flush out the old GDT and install the new changes! */ load_gdt(&gdt_ptr); } void gdt_set_gate(unsigned long base, unsigned long limit, unsigned char access, unsigned char gran, struct gdt_entry* gdt_entry) { /* Setup the descriptor base address */ gdt_entry->base_low = (base & 0xFFFF); gdt_entry->base_middle = (base >> 16) & 0xFF; gdt_entry->base_high = (base >> 24) & 0xFF; /* Setup the descriptor limits */ gdt_entry->limit_low = (limit & 0xFFFF); gdt_entry->granularity = ((limit >> 16) & 0x0F); /* Finally, set up the granularity and access flags */ gdt_entry->granularity |= (gran & 0xF0); gdt_entry->access = access; }