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Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0708020125m6303e6f7ub5a75bf629fd0dfe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:25:17 +0200
From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: "Rene Herman" <rene.herman@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.
Hello Andi,
On 01 Aug 2007 19:13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.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
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