source: trunk/BOOTCODE/REGULAR/TIMER.ASM@ 54

Last change on this file since 54 was 51, checked in by Ben Rietbroek, 12 years ago

AiR-BOOT v1.0.8-rc3 build-20120909 [2012-09-10]

With Git one can easily hop-skip-and-jump between branches.
So I use Git for my local repos and make use of this easy branching.
Because SVN can only handle lineair history, these branches had to be
rebased before committing them to Netlabs. So, this commit contains a
multitude of changes which makes it a bit hairy.

New

o Display LVM drive-letters in the main menu

A populair request was to show drive-letter information in the menu.
Drive-letters however, are OS specific and AiR-BOOT cannot
accurately predict what drive-letter other operating systems would
assign to what partition. eCS LVM drive-letters however are stored
in the LVM-record and can thus be displayed.

o Added 'Show LVM Drive Letters' option in SETUP/BASIC

This will toggle the display of LVM drive-letters in the main menu.
By default this option is enabled.

o Show popup message when BIOS INT13X extensions are not available

The system is halted.

o Show 'DEL to Power Off' in the bottom left corner

This tries to power-off the system, but it may not work for you.

o Simple interactive debugger

Outputs to the serial port with a few one-letter commands to dump
internal tables and state. (Only available in debug builds)

o Enhanced drive-letter feature

Enable multiple eCS installations using the same drive-letter.
This makes it possible to clone a system with the command
'XCOPY /h /o /t /s /e /r /v /e' to another drive and have that boot
from the same drive-letter.
(Or installing to the same drive by hiding the other system)

Changes

o Reduced MBR protection-image from 1024 to 768 bytes

Luckily the MBR Protection Image code does not exceed 768 bytes,
so that gives us another 256 bytes of precious code-space.
Now the non-EN versions are happy again.
Note that the alignment for the image changed from 512 to 256 bytes.
MBR-PROT.ASM, FIXCODE.C, PARTMAIN.ASM and AIR-BOOT.ASM have been
adjusted for this change.
The fight for code-space continues...

o Updating from v1.06 now also copies over drive-letters

When the user has forced drive-letters in v1.06 these will be copied
over to the v1.0.8 configuration when upgrading.
Because the drive-letter feature is broken in v1.07,
the drive-letter table does not get copied over when upgrading
from v1.07.

o Made FX-code optional to compile in

The FX-code supplies the shifting screen-effects when 'Cooper Bars'
is enabled in the setup. With the current enhancements made however,
there is a continuous lack of code-space, especially when debug-code
is included during development. The FX-code occupies some
1200 bytes, a space that can be put to better use. Therefore the
inclusion of the FX-code has been made conditional to make room for
either debugging or future new features.

o Also rewrite PBR on HPFS

Earlier, a fix was made to write a modified PBR back in case JFS was
used. This was done to enable the drive-letter feature on JFS, since
the PBR JFS-bootcode does not use the supplied PBR in memory.
With the enhancements in the drive-letter feature, the HPFS PBR
needs to be updated on disk also, to cope with zero drive-letters in
the HPFS PBR. This potentially fixes a missing drive-letter in the
PBR when the system is restored from an archive. You might need the
drive-letter feature to force the correct drive-letter on the first
boot, after which the feature can be disabled.

o Added extra MBR protection

When AiR-BOOT is active, it is only AiR-BOOT that writes to the MBR.
To protect the MBR from programming errors, like the one below,
any write to the MBR is now checked for validity.
In essence this is protecting your MBR from bad programming done
by me...

Fixes

o Fixed a minor bug with displaying LVM drive-letters

When more partitions that can be displayed were present, scrolling
the menu would not scroll the drive-letter. Fixed.

o Fixed a bug with regard to the drive-letter feature

When partitions were deleted, and some partitions above the deleted
partition(s) had a drive-letter forced, these partitions would lose
this assignment. This bug is also present in v1.06.

Note

The AIRBOOT.HIS file mentions a DOCU directory with the AiR-BOOT
documentation etc. However, this is not present in this commit and
will be provided at a later time.

File size: 3.3 KB
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1; AiR-BOOT (c) Copyright 1998-2008 M. Kiewitz
2;
3; This file is part of AiR-BOOT
4;
5; AiR-BOOT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
6; the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
7; Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
8; any later version.
9;
10; AiR-BOOT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
11; WARRANTY: without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
12; FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
13; details.
14;
15; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
16; AiR-BOOT. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
17;
18;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
19; AiR-BOOT / TIMER
20;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
21
22IFDEF MODULE_NAMES
23DB 'TIMER',0
24ENDIF
25
26; This here is one of the rare cases that I'm using DIV and MUL opcodes. I
27; could have coded around them in here as well, but I was too lazy. Most of
28; the time, I'm not using them. If you want to look at something "leet", look
29; at SPECIAL\FX.asm =)
30
31; In: Nothing
32; Out: DX:AX - Current TimerTicCount
33TIMER_GetTicCount Proc Near Uses ds si
34 push 0040h
35 pop ds
36 mov si, 006Ch
37 mov ax, word ptr ds:[si]
38 mov dx, word ptr ds:[si+2]
39 ret
40TIMER_GetTicCount EndP
41
42; In: AL - Timer-Tics to wait
43; Out: Nothing
44TIMER_WaitTicCount Proc Near Uses ax bx dx
45 ;movzx bx, al
46 mov bl,al
47 mov bh,0
48
49 call TIMER_GetTicCount
50 add bx, ax ; BX - Required lower Tic
51 TWTC_Loop:
52 call TIMER_GetTicCount
53 cmp ax, bx
54 jb TWTC_Loop
55 ret
56TIMER_WaitTicCount EndP
57
58; In: AL - Seconds
59; Out: AX - Tics
60TIMER_TranslateSecToTic Proc Near Uses bx dx
61 or al, al
62 jz TTSTT_Zerod
63 xor ah, ah
64 mov dl, 5
65 div dl ; Seconds : 5
66 mov bh, ah
67 xor ah, ah
68 mov bl, 91
69 mul bl ; Result * 91
70 mov dx, ax
71 ;movzx ax, bh
72 mov al,bh
73 mov ah,0
74
75 mov bl, 18
76 mul bl ; Remainder * 18
77 add ax, dx ; Add both together...
78 TTSTT_Zerod:
79 ret
80TIMER_TranslateSecToTic EndP
81
82; In: AX - Tics
83; Out: AL - Seconds
84TIMER_TranslateTicToSec Proc Near Uses bx dx
85 or ax, ax
86 jz TTTTS_Overflow
87 cmp ax, 23295
88 ja TTTTS_Overflow
89 mov dl, 91
90 div dl ; Tics : 91
91 mov dh, al
92 ;movzx ax, ah
93 mov al,ah
94 mov ah,0
95
96 mov dl, 18
97 div dl ; Remainder : 18
98 xor ah, ah ; We dont need that remainder
99 xchg dh, al
100 mov bl, 5
101 mul bl ; Result * 5
102 ;movzx dx, dh
103 mov dl,dh
104 mov dh,0
105
106 add ax, dx ; Add both together...
107 ret
108 TTTTS_Overflow:
109 xor ax, ax
110 ret
111TIMER_TranslateTicToSec EndP
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