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tkchia
eea601f346
[metal] Some minor fixes and tweaks (#933)
* [metal] Ensure DF is clear when calling C from exception handler
* [metal] Mark some internal routines and declarations as `@internal`
* [metal] Fix crash under UEFI when command line string is NULL
* [metal] Fix argc & argv[] setting, & VM page freeing, for UEFI

Part of the memory occupied by the argv[] contents was
erroneously used for page tables & then later erroneously
freed.  The symptom was that argv[0] would show up as an
empty string ("").
2023-11-14 15:26:59 -08:00
tkchia
ed17d3008b
[metal] Add a uprintf() routine, for non-emergency boot logging (#905)
* [metal] Add a uprintf() routine, for non-emergency boot logging
* [metal] _Really_ push forward timing of VGA TTY initialization
* [metal] Do something useful with uprintf()
* [metal] Locate some ACPI tables, for later hardware detection

Specifically the code now tries to find the ACPI RSDP,
RSDT/XSDT, FADT, & MADT tables, whether in legacy BIOS
bootup mode or in a UEFI bootup.  These are useful for
figuring out how to (re)enable asynchronous interrupts
in legacy 8259 PIC mode.
2023-10-25 14:32:20 -07:00