Re: [coreboot] Suggested readings

[WANG FEI]

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-m...

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Gregg Levine  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/01...
>
> 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 [e-mail]
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin  wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > > [e-mail] 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-dev...
> > 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/...
> > 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