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Finish with fourth part of booting process

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Alexander Kuleshov 2016-01-24 00:05:15 +06:00
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That's all. All preparation are finished and now we can see transition to the long mode.
Transition to long mode
Transition to the 64-bit mode
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First of all we need to set the `EFER.LME` flag in the [MSR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-specific_register) to `0xC0000080`:
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movl %eax, %cr0
```
and call:
and execute:
```assembly
lret
```
Remember that we pushed the address of the `startup_64` function to the stack in the previous step, and after the `lret` instruction, the CPU extracts the address of it and jumps there.
instruction. Remember that we pushed the address of the `startup_64` function to the stack in the previous step, and after the `lret` instruction, the CPU extracts the address of it and jumps there.
After all of these steps we're finally in 64-bit mode: