Remove unused protected-mode print routine

[nameless-os.git] / boot / x86 / protected.s

diff --git a/boot/x86/protected.s b/boot/x86/protected.s
index d1c7eea34df31ac1a191c26bc2abeb6bb45924d6..63d448cac20ce1da988dfd277a0470e2ca8c7acf 100644 (file)
--- a/boot/x86/protected.s
+++ b/boot/x86/protected.s
@@ -37,40 +37,12 @@ protected
        mov ebp, 090000h
        mov esp, ebp
 
-       ; print a string to let us know that we survived the switch
-       mov ebx, pm_success
-       call pmprint
-
        ; transfer control to the kernel
        call KERNEL_OFFSET
 
        ; above call should not return in normal circumstances, but if it does hang forever
        jmp $
 
-pmprint
-       pusha ; save registers to stack
-       mov edx, video_memory ; initialize dx with location of VRAM
-
-.loop
-       mov al, [ebx] ; read next char and put it in al
-       mov ah, 00000111b ; puts the VGA text mode color white on black into ah
-
-       cmp al, 0 ; if the next character is null, we reached end of string
-       je .done ; so return the instruction
-
-       mov [edx], al ; otherwise put the next character in the video memory
-       mov [edx+1], ah ; do the same for its color
-
-       inc ebx ; point to next character in string
-       add edx, 2 ; point to next character in VRAM
-
-       jmp .loop ; go back to the loop
-
-.done
-       popa ; restore registers from stack
-       ret ; return
-
-pm_success db "Now in protected mode", 0
 video_memory equ 0B8000h
 
 ; the actual Global Descriptor Table