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author | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-03-21 22:10:17 -0700 |
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committer | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-03-21 22:29:24 -0700 |
commit | fba2146593b077829845efcfe4b343ce809f5d88 (patch) | |
tree | 5cda18c98876967530105ab95757fede599685f9 /ex8.mu | |
parent | 89db4ec10001f08742be78596ef41f07ed5b124c (diff) | |
download | mu-fba2146593b077829845efcfe4b343ce809f5d88.tar.gz |
snapshot: reading from disk without BIOS!!
Both LBA and CHS coordinates are now working for the primary disk on the primary bus. Failure modes I ran into: - ATA ports are 16-bit values. Using instructions with 8-bit immediates will yield strange results. (I had to debug this twice because I missed poll-ata-primary-bus-primary-drive-regular-status-word the first time around.) Mu's toolchain has been found out here. bootstrap has good errors but doesn't support the instructions I need in boot.subx. The self-hosted phases support the instructions but provide no error-checking. Might be worth starting to add error-checking as I encounter the need. In this case, a vote for validating metadata sizes even if we don't validate that instructions pass in the right metadata sizes. - Can't poll readiness first thing. Maybe we need to always select the drive first. - Reading 8-bit values from a 16-bit port (data port 0x1f0) returns garbage. Reading 32-bit values however works totally fine; go figure. (Maybe it won't work on real hardware?) https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=36415 - Passing in a 0 segment will never return data.
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