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Subject: Re: book to learn ppc assembly and architecture
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On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 16:37 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > what  is  the  best  book  to  learn  assembly  and  architecture .
> 
> Reading the architecture books with a nice cup of tea.
> 
> http://www.power.org/resources/downloads/PowerISA_V2.06B_V2_PUBLIC.pdf
> 

A slightly less steep approach might be to get yourself the programmer
manuals of some older powerpc chips, like the freescale PEMs, and then
move on to the full ISA

Cheers,
Ben.