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 Post subject: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:43 am 
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An experimental attempt to engage all 4 protection rings on Intel processors.

Source: https://github.com/isoux/4RING_OS
Blog: https://www.isoux.org/blog/article2/4ring_os


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 Post subject: Re: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
PostPosted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:10 pm 
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This is a fact that Intel's technical manuals emphasize from the first editions for i386: "call gates are much more versatile and faster than trap gates ..."

More versatile? Maybe. Faster? Depends on what you're doing.

Do you happen to have a floppy disk image? It's not easy to boot a CD on a 386.


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 Post subject: Re: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:48 am 
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Octocontrabass wrote:
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Do you happen to have a floppy disk image? It's not easy to boot a CD on a 386.


On the GitHub I have a branch i386.
At folder tools/GRUB1/ is a compressed image without modules but HOWTO talks about how to do it.

This branch is dedicated to prerelease i386 and images and iso are compiled for 2Mb of memory.
I can compile release 0.00 for i386 if you want to just tell me how much memory you have because it's hardcoded for now?

I added a compiled floppy image for the i486 with 8Mb of memory.


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 Post subject: Re: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
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Octocontrabass wrote:
More versatile? Maybe. Faster? Depends on what you're doing.

Thanks for a very useful article!
When I said that call gates are faster, I meant that they are faster than interrupt traps, as the article showed. Too bad that sysenter or syscall can't call from other rings otherwise I would use them on newer processors.
As the article also said, I can't help but wonder why Linux still uses the slowest trap gates on the latest 64-bit machines?


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 Post subject: Re: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:58 pm 
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Isa wrote:
As the article also said, I can't help but wonder why Linux still uses the slowest trap gates on the latest 64-bit machines?

If you're talking about the INT 0x80 trap gate, it's for compatibility with 32-bit programs, it only supports the 32-bit system call numbers, and it only works on kernels that support 32-bit programs. 64-bit programs exclusively use SYSCALL. (And if you run a 32-bit program on the latest 64-bit machines, it will probably use SYSCALL or SYSENTER instead of INT 0x80.)


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 Post subject: Re: 4RING_OS ver. 0.00
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Right, thank you!


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