What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:38 am
I'll start. Mine is when I figured out why my BGA driver wasn't setting any pixels... It was page faulting when I accessed the buffer. 
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Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:47 am
When I realized how poor my memory management was. I wasn't able to do any high resolution GUI because of that.
Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:34 am
Mine was seeing yet another "What is your xxx moment?" post.
Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:28 pm
When I got my OS to boot from SATA using AHCI on QEMU only to find out it doesn't work anywhere else (not in VirtualBox, or even different QEMU builds...) 
Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:17 am
I spent about 30 minutes attempting to debug some very simple GDT initialisation before realising I was using lidt instead of lgdt... not my finest moment.
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Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:18 pm
After wasting over 10 hours debugging gdt and idts just to realize my gdt entries size was 0
Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:25 am
>terminal_writechar doesn't work, but terminal_writestring does
Okay, i'll fix that
>terminal_writechar works, but terminal_writestring doesn't
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Okay, i'll fix that
>terminal_writechar works, but terminal_writestring doesn't
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