On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > pras...@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 -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
