DMA Programming (PDF format) by Justin Deltener
ReiserFS On-Disk Structures by Gerson Kurz
Interfacing the Parellel Port (pdf format, 76.4KB) by Craig Peacock
Interfacing the Serial / RS232 Port (pdf format, 139KB) by Craig Peacock
DP8390D/NS32490D NIC Network Interface Controller (pdf format, 683KB) by National Semiconductor Corporation
DP8390 Network Interface Controller - An Introductory Guide (pdf format, 157KB) by National Semiconductor Corporation
The Workings of the PCI BIOS (pdf format, 57KB) by PCI Special Interest Group
Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification (pdf format, 287KB) by Microsoft Corporation
Trends in Operating System Design: Towards a Customisable Persistent Micro-Kernel (pdf format, 98.8KB) by David Hulse and Alan Dearle
Plug & Play External COM (Serial) Device Specification (pdf format, 74.2KB) by Microsoft Corporation, Hayes Microcomputer Corporation
Plug & Play ISA Specifications (pdf format, 258KB) by Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation
Plug & Play COM (Serial) Specifications (pdf format, 39.5KB) by Microsoft Corporation
Writing Drivers for the DP8390 NIC Family of Ethernet Controllers (pdf format, 125KB) by National Semiconductor
8253/54 CPU Timer Datasheet (pdf format, 43.5KB) by Intel Corporation
Plug & Play BIOS Specifications (pdf format, 194KB) by Compaq Computer Corporation, Intel Corporation, Pheonix BIOS Corporation
82077AA Floppy Controller Datasheet (pdf format, 586KB) by Intel Corporation
Plug & Play Design Specifications for External IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices (pdf format, 58KB) by Microsoft Corporation
Journaling the Linux ext2fs File System (pdf format, 27KB) by Stephen C. Tweedie
Long File Name Specification (pdf format, 84KB) by Microsoft
Official FAT 12/16/32 Specification (pdf format, 164KB) by Microsoft
The Extended-2 Filesystem Overview (pdf format, 168KB) by Gadi Oxman
Multiboot Spec
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List ZIPed (ZIP 1.9MB)
AMD CPU Docs
Intel's Docs
The CPUID Guide by Lawrence Curwood
Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture (pdf format)
Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference Manual A-M (pdf format)
Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3: System Programming Guide (pdf format)
Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual (TXT format, ZIPed to 203K)
Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference Manual N-Z (pdf format)
AMD's x86-64 Docs
PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide
I/O Registers for Standard VGA Cards (TXT format) by Shaggy
Tauron VGA Utils actually source, but there's a good amount of comments in it (ZIP 135kb)
XFree86 Video Timings some XFree86 specific info, along with some generic info
IBM PC Keyboard Information for Software Developers by Chris Giese [pdf]
Wout Merten's Guide To Keyboard Programming v1.1 Complete by Wout Merten [pdf]
Interfacing the AT Keyboard
Keyboard Layouts for non-English Scripts
Sun's Keyboard Layouts
Russian Keyboard: standard and phonetic (transliterated, homophonic)
Russian Keyboard Layout
Mouse Hardware by Tomi Engdahl [pdf]
The PS/2 Mouse Interface
PC mouse information
A programmers guide to the uPD765 and i82072/7 Floppy Disk Controllers
Disk Structures
How does the DMA work by pcguts [pdf]
The Official USB docs
Universal Serial Bus Device Driver Development
FAT12/16/32 info from Microsoft in DOC format
ISO9660 Simplified for DOS/Windows
A Table of Partition Types [pdf]

[linuxkernelnewbies] Bona Fide OS Development Documents

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