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Author SHA1 Message Date
tkchia
31dab8a75d
[metal] Fix bug: do not initialize IDT & TSS if unneeded (#654)
libc/intrin/interrupts.S should not be linked in unless
an IDT (or TSS) is explicitly requested somewhere (i.e.
it should probably not be a mandatory module).
2022-10-10 20:54:46 -07:00
Justine Tunney
9b7c8db846
Perform some code maintenance
- Change IDT code so kprintf() isn't mandatory dependency
- Document current intentions around pthread_cancel()
- Make _npassert() an _unassert() in MODE=tiny
2022-10-09 13:00:46 -07:00
tkchia
d3efa47f81
Show "screen of death" on VGA console upon program crash (#650)
* [metal] Refactoring: separate out sys_writev_vga() and _vga_init() modules

* [metal] Read VGA info from BDA before long mode entry, not after

If using a pre-existing VGA text console, the VGA initialization
code now retrieves the cursor position & character height from
the BIOS data area while still in real mode — rather than
reading from the BIOS data area only after entering long mode.

(This should help make the code more correct, if Cosmopolitan
were to support UEFI graphics output in the future.  If the
program were booted via UEFI, then the long mode IsMetal()
code would still be activated, but the BIOS data area might
not have been initialized in that case.)

This change also means that there are now a few more fields
in the `struct mman`.

* [metal] VGA console can now show "screen of death" upon a crash

There is now a new function _klog_vga(), which can be called
by kprintf() to output system messages — e.g. information about
CPU exceptions — on the VGA screen.

* [metal] CPU exception handler now dumps cr2 value
* [metal] Add demo of program crash reporting w/ bare metal VGA TTY
* [metal] Reduce size of "screen of death" code
2022-10-06 05:36:15 -07:00
tkchia
bc8532688b
Enable CPU exception handling w/ IDT & TSS (#640) 2022-09-29 14:43:08 -07:00