On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Andrew Kirilenko wrote:
> Hello!
>
> OK. I've solved my problems with storing data (problem was with improper DS
> setup - thanks to all, pointed me to this). And now I should perform a search
> in the BIOS are for particular string (version of BIOS ). Here is my code
> (it's located in the setup.S, so executes in the real mode, not ptotected).
>
> -->
> start_of_setup:
> jmp cl_start
> cl_id_str: .string "BIOS 0.1"
> cl_start:
> movb $0, %al
> movw $0xe000, %bx
> cl_compare:
> incw %bx
> movw %bx, %si
> cmpw $0xefff, %si
> je cl_compare_done
> movw $cl_id_str, %di
> cl_compare_inner:
> movb (%di), %ah
> cmpb $0, %ah
> je cl_compare_done_good
> cmpb (%si), %ah
> jne cl_compare
> incw %si
> incw %di
> jmp cl_compare_inner
> cl_compare_done_good:
> movb $1, %al
> cl_compare_done:
> <--
>
> This code don't work... I'm sure, that's because of inproper registers setup
> (or maybe address range is wrong). Please help me.
>
Hmm, maybe you should just learn assembly off-line.
cl_id_str: .string "BIOS 0.1"
cl_id_end:
scan: movw %cs, %ax # Get code-segment
movw %ax, %ds # Set into data segment
movw %ax, %es # Set into extra segment CS=ES=DS
cld # Compare forwards
movw $cl_id_str, %si # String to compare
movw $were_in_the_bios_you_expect_to_find_it, %di
movw $cl_id_end, %cx # Offset to this label
subw %si, %cx # CX = length of string
decw %cx # Don't compare \0
repz cmpsb # Continue as long as they compare
jz found # String was found
# Not found here
found:
If you need to search the whole BIOS for that string, you need to
set up an outer loop using an unused register which starts at
the offset of the BIOS and increments by one byte everytime
you can't find the string. This value gets put into %di, instead
of the absolute number specified above.
Like:
scan: movw %cs, %ax
movw %ax, %ds
movw %ax, %es
movw $where_in_BIOS_to_start, %bx
cld
1: movw $cl_id_str, %si # Offset of search string
movw $cl_id_end, %cx # Offset of string end + 1
subw %si, %cx # String length
decw %cx # Don't look for the \0
movw %bx, %di # ES:DI = where to look
repz cmpsb # Loop while the same
jz found # Found the string
incb %bx # Next starting offset
cmpb $_BIOS_END, %bx # Check for limit
jb 1b # Continue
never_found_anywhere:
found:
Note that the `gas` .string macro puts in a '\0', assuming it's
a 'C' string. You don't want to put that in the comparison. That's
why you search one-less than the allocation length. There are
predefined macros available for 'len', also.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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