[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-manuals/


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> 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 gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin <adurbin at chromium.org> wrote:
> > 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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