Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753940AbXHBIZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752902AbXHBIZV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:25:21 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:42610 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429AbXHBIZS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:25:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RBeAYrymdoI43i8QsynplgOED2kDM+/8swi2fu/yYuxhUHXHLC+41MRzL2MVkYEFVhA/lsKjAsNTtxkHuhfKFX3xaxt7Pt2y/hyPX29G4/XzDgJkPlTrmhbKKOXnENeRp5f3yx9IZw89dB7dPr+jkAd9XKlIFX6aqxbfZUVIu0M= Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0708020125m6303e6f7ub5a75bf629fd0dfe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:25:17 +0200 From: "Francis Moreau" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: Search for x86_64 documentation. Cc: "Rene Herman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <38b2ab8a0708010627n7b7d2bbbicc7dc5f212faf016@mail.gmail.com> <46B095F2.2060605@gmail.com> <38b2ab8a0708010830h6205bfdfm8b5035cbf9ed1ccc@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 30 Hello Andi, On 01 Aug 2007 19:13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Francis Moreau" 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/