[coreboot] Question about Intel's documentation notations

Rafael Machado rafaelrodrigues.machado at gmail.com
Mon May 9 17:25:25 CEST 2016


Make sense. Now I saw the notes. Stupid question, sorry.

That about the *xx*H ?

Thanks for the fast response.
Rafael

Em seg, 9 de mai de 2016 às 12:23, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> H means hex, they do that instead of 0x.
> 2 is footnote 2.
>
> The whole H thing goes back 45 years or so and was a failure of vision, AH
> is a register name and a constant. As are bc, ch, and dh. oops.
>
> ron
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:19 AM Rafael Machado <
> rafaelrodrigues.machado at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I'm taking a look at the Intel developers guide and there is a notation
>> there that I didn't understand.
>>
>> [image: pasted1]
>>
>> Since there are several guys with more experience here, probably someone
>> can help me. This is the table with the default values of the registers
>> after a system reset, from Intel Developers Guide, page 2285.
>>
>> That does the "H2" means at the attached picture ?
>> And what toes the xxH3 means too ?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Rafael R. Machado
>>
>>
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