The most useful boot refer to legacy system I believe: http://www.amazon.com/The-Undocumented-PC-Programmers-Edition/dp/0201479508
Beside Aaron's suggestion of Intel manuals, I also recommend AMD programming manuals, http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/developer-guides-manuals/ On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > I'll echo what you also said Aaron with this one on the X86 family as well: > > http://www.amazon.com/Computer-organization-Hardware-software-Gorsline/dp/0131652907/ref=cm_wl_huc_item > > That book happens to be extremely important to almost any programmer. > It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of > course the members of the original series of system members. It > largely talks about the actual beginning entries, the 8086 itself, and > others. People here would find it useful because it still describes > useful ideas. > > Even Intel is realizing that the retired the X86 working entries in > the series too early, that's why the QUARK family is out now. > ----- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: > >>> do you mean that no book (that you know) talks about x86 systems? > >> > >> Some books do, no single book covers the 35+ years of legacy which is > >> still very much present in the latest x86 hardware. > > > > I'll definitely echo what Peter said. There are the intel manuals: > > > > > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html > > > > While those are good, there are a lot of quirky things that are chip > > specific that aren't covered. And as Peter said there is a lot of > > legacy. > > > > > http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensable-Hardware-Book-Edition/dp/0201596164/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412688038&sr=8-2 > > > > That one is very much oriented to BIOS and PCs proper. There are some > > gems in there, but I wouldn't go to that if one wanted to understand > > computer architecture. > > > > -Aaron > > > > -- > > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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