From: rfefw@gmail.hu (rfefw at gmail.hu)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: arm assembly, how to write a character to the mobile phone's screen at boot time?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:51:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0b45c8396a6cee9d34ca5ca4316e537@gmail.hu> (raw)
hi list
i would like to code a hello world like program that would be placed on
a
phone's ?or an emulator image.
i have been checking out the current source for the boot record where i
found a code for 'puts' which prints out a text
?
// linux/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@ puts corrupts {r0, r1, r2, r3}
puts: loadsp r3, r1
1: ldrb r2, [r0], #1
teq r2, #0
moveq pc, lr
2: writeb r2, r3
mov r1, #0x00020000
3: subs r1, r1, #1
bne 3b
teq r2, #'\n'
moveq r2, #'\r'
beq 2b
teq r0, #0
bne 1b
mov pc, lr
@ putc corrupts {r0, r1, r2, r3}
putc:
mov r2, r0
mov r0, #0
loadsp r3, r1
b 2b
...
it calls the macro 'writeb' which is defined as (well it has multiple
definitions, but one of them for instance):
mcr p14, 0, \ch, c0, c5, 0
what are these magical p14 and c0 c5 registers? is there a
documentation for these?
but may be i am on the wrong track, if so, how do i print out a
character at the boot code's level? is there something like a "video
memory" where i can write to? or a "bios" interrupt call?
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