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2018-06-24Modified makefiles to use the more appropriate variable $(MAKE) whenJake Mannens
invoking the tool recursively. Disabled GCC's position-independent-code generation in makefiles. Modified makefile for kernel/usrbin so that it now compiles and links C code into the userspace test. Created errno.h and populated it with standard error definitions. Replaced the va_list based system call handlers with a system call table defined in the header kernel/sys.h. NOTE: This header is included in kmain.c and should ONLY be included there! Do NOT include this header in sys.c. Rather than fetching the user's stack pointer and using it to initialize a va_list, parameters are now passed to the call handlers via the general purpose registers EAX, EBX, ECX and EDX where EAX contains the requested call number and conveys the return value. Setup macros in unistd.h to aid to making system calls from userspace. Implemented two basic system calls; sys_print and sys_dummy. The former takes a single char* argument and displays it on screen whilst the latter is used to populate otherwise empty entries of the system call table. sys_dummy returns the error ENOSYS whenever it is called.
2018-06-23Re-wrote interrupt handling. Now, flush_idt only initializes IDT entriesJake Mannens
32-255. A separate routine in the new file traps.s initializes the first 32 entries with addresses pointing to exception handlers within said file. Modified the register_isr function to now accept a descriptor privilege level which it will assign to the modified IDT entry. Added a task state segment and corresponding entry to the GDT. The TSS will store the kernel's stack pointer and stack segment when switching to userspace. NOTE: The stack pointer MUST be saved manually before switching to userspace! Added the framework for a system call interface at interrupt vector 0x80 (128).
2018-06-20Added a very basic types.h header file that defines NULL, size_t andJake Mannens
time_t. Moved the kernel's loading point down to address 0 in conventional memory and updated linker scripts accordingly. Began to experiment with loading a binary blob into extended memory (0x100000), switching to userspace mode, and executing it.