Re: i386 start routine

Maxime Villard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 21/09/2019 à 04:22, Emmanuel Dreyfus a écrit :
> Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The CR0 change cause the memory pointed by the stack pointer to be
>> unmapped. As a result, the pushl $begin does not push begin adddress on
>> the stack, and ret launches us in the twilight zone.
>>
>> Why enabling protected mode and paging makes a mapping disapear?
> 
> Further reading teaches me that setting CR0_PG enable the mapping given
> in CR3, which was built earlier in the file. I understand the temporary
> stack is not mapped. I wonder how this is supposed to work.

The temporary stack is part of .data, which is mapped.
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