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fougere
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Speaking in terms of writing a custom OS for TI-83/84(P)(SE), any ideas on what to do instead of reimplementing TI's b_call stuff? I mean, if you always developed code on a computer, you could write a macro to do the page swap and call the function, but how do you equate an identifier to 2 diff. numbers: one for the page and one for the address? Also, for developing on-calc, you would need an exhaustive list of names for all system calls to parse with. I would image TI-OS has a small one, but it only contains strings for the catalog functions, not EVERY system call--that would get pretty big. Thanks.
EDIT: fixed spelling
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calcdude84se
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Just in general terms of system calls and off-page calling, or would this be a compatibility layer? When you do a bcall, you're only passing two bytes to the bcall routine, which selects the correct page by some-means-I-can't-remember-right-now. With more specificity I can probably answer your question.
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fullmetalcoder
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calcdude84se wrote:
Just in general terms of system calls and off-page calling, or would this be a compatibility layer? When you do a bcall, you're only passing two bytes to the bcall routine, which selects the correct page by some-means-I-can't-remember-right-now. With more specificity I can probably answer your question.
The bcall routine uses the bcall parameter to determine on which page to find the vector table and which entry of the vector table to read, then swap that page, read the routine location (page and actual address) swap the new page in and jump to the proper location. For that to work properly some messing with stack is obviously required (most notably to return to a place where page swapping can be undone before returning to the caller. For a complete implementation you can have a look at XOS code : http://code.google.com/p/8xpos/source/browse/trunk/trunk/lib/bcall.z80
This cannot be done as easily from "user-space" because the bottom 16k of memory are the only one that cannot be swapped.
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fougere
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| Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:48:17 pm Post subject: |
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| alright, thanks. I'll have a look. |
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bobmorton
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| Thank you for the info. I have to look for this also. Thanks again. |
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Xeda112358
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Pretty much, the B_Call routine works like this...
First, remember that call and rst push the PC value onto the stack. When B_Call is called, it is RST 28h, so it goes to address 0028. From there, it happens to be that it jumps to another address where the actual routine is.
From there, it uses SP to read the value of PC. That address points to the byte after EF, (the LSB). After loading the two bytes and incrementing the twice, the new PC value is stored back on the stack. Then the routine checks for what model the calc is to figure out which page has the actual address of the call. It loads that page into port 6 (membank 1) and then it gets 3 bytes at the address... the page the B_Call is on and the address. The new page is loaded into port 6 and control jumps to the address.
Yeah, it's a bit complicated... I have used a similar enough method before, though, and I have read through the OS a little in my spare time, so I have a decent understanding. If you have specific questions, I can *try* to answer them  |
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