[coreboot] Suggested readings

[prasnik at anche.no]

Hi Greg,

On 2014-10-07 14:35, Gregg Levine wrote:
[..]
> It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of 
> course
What do you mean with "part numbers" .. chapters? If so, does the whole 
sentence
mean that this book has chapters on obsolete topics?

> the members of the original series of system members.
What is this "original serie of system members" ? (I googled a bit but
found nothing related)

> 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.
Also here, what does "retiring a working entry" mean?

Bye, and thanks a lot!

> -----
> 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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