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From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Rene Herman" <rene.herman@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:25:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0708020125m6303e6f7ub5a75bf629fd0dfe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73lkcvnpoo.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

Hello Andi,

On 01 Aug 2007 19:13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > I was actually more interested in books which are more pleasant to
> > read than a raw datasheet.
>
> The first volumes of the Intel and AMD architecture manuals are far from "raw
> datasheets".  In fact they're quite well written as brief introduction
> of x86 assuming you have some basic knowledge of assembly language concepts.
>
> There might be better introductions for a total newbie but if you
> already know another assembly language and other basic concepts
> of computer architecture they should serve you very well.
>

Ah ok.

I had bad experience with this kind of documentation but I should have
taken a deeper look into them before asking.

thanks.
-- 
Francis

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 13:27 Francis Moreau
2007-08-01 14:17 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-01 15:30   ` Francis Moreau
2007-08-01 15:39     ` Rene Herman
2007-08-02  8:27       ` Francis Moreau
2007-08-01 17:13     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-02  8:25       ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2007-08-02  7:33     ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-08-02  8:26       ` Francis Moreau
2007-08-01 14:29 ` Peter Oruba

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