[linuxkernelnewbies] Bona Fide OS Development Documents

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.osdever.net/documents.php?cat=0&sort=1 Documents 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]