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MichaelPetch wrote:The fact it is ignoring -T *is* a serious problem. As a result The linker script (Linker.ld) you are specifying is being ignored. What happens when you remove `-z`. That `-z` is bogus but the `-T` after it is not.

You can believe whatever you want about whatever options you are using but I can tell you this - Until you ultimately fix your linker options you are going to tear you hair out trying to fix that 0x804xxxxxx address causing all kinds of problem. Your triple fault right now is because you are telling the processor to go to a bogus memory address that doesn't actually have a service routine at it. I will make you a bet that you have a bunch of 0x804..... addresses in your kernel where mine looks like this:

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objdump -x _build/iso/System/Kernel/NovaVita.kernel

_build/iso/System/Kernel/NovaVita.kernel:     file format elf32-i386
_build/iso/System/Kernel/NovaVita.kernel
architecture: i386, flags 0x00000112:
EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, D_PAGED
start address 0x00101278

Program Header:
    PHDR off    0x00000034 vaddr 0x000ff034 paddr 0x000ff034 align 2**2
         filesz 0x000000e0 memsz 0x000000e0 flags r--
  INTERP off    0x000050fc vaddr 0x001040fc paddr 0x001040fc align 2**0
         filesz 0x00000013 memsz 0x00000013 flags r--
    LOAD off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x000ff000 paddr 0x000ff000 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00002000 memsz 0x00002000 flags r--
    LOAD off    0x00002000 vaddr 0x00101000 paddr 0x00101000 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00004094 memsz 0x0000d000 flags rwx
 DYNAMIC off    0x00006004 vaddr 0x00105004 paddr 0x00105004 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000090 memsz 0x00000090 flags rw-
EH_FRAME off    0x0000513c vaddr 0x0010413c paddr 0x0010413c align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000044 memsz 0x00000044 flags r--
   STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**4
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rwx

Dynamic Section:
  GNU_HASH             0x00104124
  STRTAB               0x00104120
  SYMTAB               0x00104110
  STRSZ                0x00000001
  SYMENT               0x00000010
  DEBUG                0x00000000
  REL                  0x00104180
  RELSZ                0x00000a40
  RELENT               0x00000008
  TEXTREL              0x00000000
  FLAGS                0x0000000c
  FLAGS_1              0x08000001
  RELCOUNT             0x00000148

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .multiboot    00001000  00100000  00100000  00001000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .text         00002000  00101000  00101000  00002000  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  2 .rodata       00001000  00103000  00103000  00004000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  3 .eh_frame     000000fc  00104000  00104000  00005000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  4 .interp       00000013  001040fc  001040fc  000050fc  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  5 .dynsym       00000010  00104110  00104110  00005110  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  6 .dynstr       00000001  00104120  00104120  00005120  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  7 .gnu.hash     00000018  00104124  00104124  00005124  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  8 .eh_frame_hdr 00000044  0010413c  0010413c  0000513c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  9 .rel.dyn      00000a40  00104180  00104180  00005180  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 10 .data         00000444  00104bc0  00104bc0  00005bc0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 11 .dynamic      00000090  00105004  00105004  00006004  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 12 .gdt          00000f6c  00105094  00105094  00006094  2**0
                  ALLOC
 13 .bss          00008000  00106000  00106000  00006094  2**12
                  ALLOC
 14 .comment      0000003d  00000000  00000000  00006094  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 15 .gnu_debuglink 0000001c  00000000  00000000  000060d4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
SYMBOL TABLE:
no symbols

You'll note I don't have addresses that start with 0x804.... and this is what happens every time a timer interrupt fires is:

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0: v=08 e=0000 i=0 cpl=0 IP=0008:001012a2 pc=001012a2 SP=0010:0010a000 env->regs[R_EAX]=001032f0

When I press a key I get an interrupt and it doesn't triple fault and it looks like this:

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v=09 e=0000 i=0 cpl=0 IP=0008:001012a2 pc=001012a2 SP=0010:0010a000 env->regs[R_EAX]=001032f0

Once you remap the PIC(s) and create proper entries in ISR.asm you are going to still encounter triple faults. You can ignore the problem I am telling you about and you will be back here asking why it is still faulting on you.

Octocontrabass wrote:It doesn't matter too much when you call it, as long as you call it before you set the interrupt flag. (You probably can't call it before your global constructors if it's C++ code.)

Octocontrabass wrote:The page you copied the code from explains what those parameters are and gives an example for how you might set them.

Octocontrabass wrote:There are also links to other pages like this one that might explain it more clearly.

Octocontrabass wrote:

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/*
arguments:
	offset1 - vector offset for master PIC
		vectors on the master become offset1..offset1+7
	offset2 - same for slave PIC: offset2..offset2+7
*/

You're supposed to set each one to the vector offset for each PIC.

Pick the vector offset based on which interrupt vectors you want to use for each PIC.

It's common to use 0x20 and 0x28 since those are the first available vectors after the ones reserved for exceptions, but it's your OS so you can choose whatever you want.

Octocontrabass wrote:Did you set the interrupt flag?

Octocontrabass wrote:The STI instruction sets the interrupt flag. If the interrupt flag is clear, the CPU will not receive any interrupts from external hardware.

_start:
        /* stack */
        mov $stack_top, %esp

        cli

        call loadGDT

        mov %cr0, %eax
        or 1, %al
        mov %eax, %cr0

        call loadIDT

        call configurePIC

        jmp $0x8, $protectedModeMain

protectedModeMain:

        sti

        /* here we call kernel_main */
        call kernel_main