[coreboot] Suggested readings

Aaron Durbin adurbin at chromium.org
Tue Oct 7 15:22:46 CEST 2014


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> prasnik at anche.no 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



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