> I've been avidly following the progress from 0.9 to 1.0 for
> quite some time now.  And recently, I decided to try to learn
> more about it's inner workings, the i386 device drivers to be
> specific.  But, I've run into a difficult problem.  I have
> no knowledge about programming the PC hardware (DMA, IRQs, etc)
> 
> Can anyone recommend a book or other source of this information?
> I'd love to be able to get SIS to send me the datasheets for
> the 85C461 and 85C407 chipsets (what I've got), but I haven't
> found anyone who knows their address or phone # (hint, hint)
> 
> I've seen several book that cover BIOS calls (yuck), but none
> that deal with the PC hardware.

I just seen a book the other day that looked like it covered this information
in some detail, although not as much as I would like.  It covered basic
things like floppy controller, western digital hard drive controller, 
serial ports, and the like.  I don't think it touched SCSI, or anything
interesting like that, but I may have missed something.  The book
was called "Undocumented PC".  From the same authors as "Undocumented DOS"
and "Undocumented Windows".  Check it out, looked 1/2 way decent.

		-- Rob
		rls@id.net


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