From 86d966811bb2341fdd217b4866a7473c7961bd23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elaina Claus <elaina.claus@chtm.me>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 17:51:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] prototypes for displaying some memory maps but now I need to
 write an arena allocator...so brb

---
 include/BIOS/func/E820_memory_map.nasm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/BIOS/func/E820_memory_map.nasm b/include/BIOS/func/E820_memory_map.nasm
index 1d4a3f4..0a7dba9 100644
--- a/include/BIOS/func/E820_memory_map.nasm
+++ b/include/BIOS/func/E820_memory_map.nasm
@@ -84,6 +84,38 @@ GetMemoryMap:
     pop es
     __CDECL16_EXIT
     ret
+
+PrintMemoryMap:
+    __CDECL16_ENTRY
+.func:
+    mov eax, dword [SteviaInfo + SteviaInfoStruct_t.MemoryMapEntries]
+    cmp eax, 0
+    je PrintMemoryMap.endp          ; if entries == 0, exit
+
+    mov ecx, eax                    ; store # of entries in counter
+    mov eax, BIOSMemoryMap          ; address to start of e820 mmap
+
+    push dword ecx
+    push dword eax
+    call FormatMemoryMapEntry
+    add sp, 0x8
+
+    ; ax contains segment offset to string after call
+    ; TODO: going to need an allocator for strings and stuff...
+    ; print_string strformat_buffer
     
+.endp:
+    __CDECL16_EXIT
+    ret
+
+FormatMemoryMapEntry:
+    __CDECL16_ENTRY
+.func:
+    ; create a string buffer somewhere and return address to result string in ax
+.endp:
+    __CDECL16_EXIT
+    ret
+
+
 %endif
 %define __INC_E820MEMORY_MAP
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