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- Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:15 am
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: Question on PMode addressing
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Re: Question on PMode addressing
hi i'm new here and to GDT .. Are we going to have more than one descriptor table , for instance , one for each program or process and will have gdtr pointing to it ?? Did we choose CS to be 0x08 because our descriptor table is the first in the GDT , or is it fixed ?? what's confusing is that we sta...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:29 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: Question on PMode addressing
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Question on PMode addressing
Thank you for your big effort .. in Demo 3 of the series, after : - installing GDT - Enabling A20 - Setting bit 0 of cr0 there is a far jump : jmp CODE_DESC:Stage3 ; far jump to fix CS where CODE_DESC was defined to be 0x08 In the tutorial it says that PMode uses the Descriptor:Offset model but didn...