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- Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:54 am
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: MP detection
- Replies: 5
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thnx I think i get it.. one more question... I followed the tutorial till the portion wher kernel development in C begins. wel.. I am not too comfortable with MSVC++.. So i kinda stopped there n thought of doin the ACPI parsing in protected mode 32 bit assembly in the small kernel stub that was crea...
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:55 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: MP detection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27709
I'm sorry if I didnt make myself clear... What I meant to ask was... parsing the ACPI tables requires probing the Bios data areas from what I understand.. Once in protected mode is it possible to write C code that can probe those areas, by explicitly using pointers pointing to the required address? ...
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:51 am
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: MP detection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27709
MP detection
Hi, I am actually trying to add SMP support to a frnd's OS. So i basically need to run some test runs for MP detection... I plan on using the ACPI tables for this. I have been using your tutorial to create bootloader stages, n they've been really useful... I am kinda new to OS development, n have a ...