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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: book to learn ppc assembly and architecture
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:43:35 +1000
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In message <1305589123.2781.15.camel@pasglop> you wrote:
> 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

True but a well aged Shiraz goes better with them than the cup of tea.

Mikey