Developer Docs

This page is meant to collect links to redistributable and published online manuals and specifications, such as hardware manuals, protocol specifications, etc. Also information learned about a piece of hardware that is not readily available in existing docs can be recorded here.

C language

• ​Draft of the C99 standard with corrigenda TC1, TC2, and TC3 included

System V ABI

• ​System V Application Binary Interface Edition 4.1

Thread Local Storage

• ​ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage

POSIX

• ​The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3

Debugging Data

• ​DWARF Debugging Information Format Version 3

AMD64

• ​AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 1: Application Programming
• ​AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming
• ​AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions
• ​Software Optimization Guide for AMD64 Processors
• ​Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors
• ​System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 Architecture Processor Supplement

ARM

• ARM Architecture Reference Manual [officially not available any more] ​Google it!
• ​ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual [registration required] ​Google it!
• ​Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture

IA-32

• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 1: Basic Architecture
• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M
• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z
• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1
• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2
• ​Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual
• ​MultiProcessor Specification
• ​82093AA I/O ADVANCED PROGRAMMABLE INTERRUPT CONTROLLER (IOAPIC)
• ​Intel 82093AA I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (I/O APIC) Specification Update
• ​SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE Intel386 Architecture Processor Supplement

IA-64

• ​Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer’s Manual Volume 1: Application Architecture
• ​Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2: System Architecture
• ​Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3: Instruction Set Reference
• ​Intel Itanium Software Conventions & Runtime Architecture Guide

MIPS

• ​MIPS R4000 Microprocessor User’s Manual
• ​MIPS32® 4K® Processor Core Family Software User's Manual [registration required] ​Google it!
• ​SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE MIPS RISC Processor Supplement
• ​Official index of MIPS architectures with manuals (registration required to download manuals)
• ​MIPS32 Instruction Set Quick Reference
• ​MIPS32® Architecture for Programmers Volume I: Introduction to the MIPS32® Architecture (unofficial copy)
• ​MIPS32® Architecture for Programmers Volume II: The MIPS32® Instruction Set
• ​MIPS32® Architecture for Programmers Volume III: The MIPS32® Privileged Resource Architecture
• ​MIPS64® Architecture for Programmers Volume I: Introduction to the MIPS64™ Architecture (unofficial copy)
• ​MIPS64® Architecture for Programmers Volume II: The MIPS64® Instruction Set (unofficial copy)
• ​MIPS64® Architecture For Programmers Volume III: The MIPS64® and microMIPS64™ Privileged Resource Architecture (unofficial copy)

PowerPC

• ​IBM PowerPC 970MP RISC Microprocessor User’s Manual
• ​PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments for 32-Bit Microprocessors
• ​PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments Manual for 64-bit Microprocessors
• ​SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE PowerPC Processor Supplement

SPARC V9

• ​The SPARC Architecture Manual Version 9
• ​SPARC Joint Programming Specification (JPS1): Commonality
• UltraSPARC User’s Manual, UltraSPARC-I, UltraSPARC-II [officially not available any more] ​Google it!
• UltraSPARC-IIi User's Manual [officially not available any more] ​Google it!
• UltraSPARC-IIe User's Manual [officially not available any more] ​Google it!
• UltraSPARC-IIIi User's Manual [officially not available any more] ​Google it!
• ​UltraSPARC Architecture 2005, PE
• ​UltraSPARC Architecture 2005, HE
• ​UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, PE
• ​UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, HE
• ​UltraSPARC T1 Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005, PE
• ​UltraSPARC T1 Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005, HE
• ​UltraSPARC T2 Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, PE
• ​UltraSPARC T2 Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, HE
• ​SPARC COMPLIANCE DEFINITION 2.4
• ​FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

Openmoko FreeRunner

• HelenOS on Neo FreeRunner
• ​Openmoko Wiki

File Systems

• ​ECMA-107 a.k.a. FAT: Volume and File Structure of Disk Cartridges for Information Interchange
• ​ECMA-119 a.k.a. ISO 9660:1988 Volume and File Structure of CDROM for Information Interchange
• ​Microsoft Joliet Extension to ISO 9660 Spec. (unofficial copy)
• ​Universal Disk Format 2.60
• ​Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem
• ​The Second Extended File System Internal Layout

Partition Tables

• ​Wikipedia article on Master boot record
• ​Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table

Peripherals

• Legacy Macintosh peripherals
• ATA, ATAPI
  • ​ATA-1 (ANSI X3.221-1994)
  • ​ATA-2 (ANSI X3.279-1996)
  • ​ATA-3 (ANSI X3.298-1997)
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-4 (ANSI NCITS 317-1998)
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-5 (ANSI NCITS 340-2000)
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-6 (ANSI NCITS 361-2002)
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 1
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 2
  • ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 3
  • ​SFF-8020 ATA Packet Interface for CD-ROMs
• SATA
  • ​AHCI Specification for Serial ATA rev. 1.3
• SCSI
  • ​SAM-4 r13 - SCSI Architecture Model - 4 (webarchive)
  • ​SPC-4 r11 - SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (webarchive)
  • ​SBC-3 r10 - SCSI Block Commands - 3 (webarchive)
  • ​MMC-5 r04 - Multimedia Command Set - 5 (webarchive)
  • ​Old SCSI-2 Standard
• Audio
  • ​Intel AC'97 Specification rev. 2.3 1.0
  • ​Intel HD Audio Specification rev. 1.0
• Graphics
  • ​AMD/ATI GPU Documentation (2-D and 3-D) at x.org
• Keyboard
  • ​Interfacing the PC AT keyboard / Beyond Logic
  • ​Intel 8042 (PS/2 keyboard/mouse port controller) / stanislavs.org
• USB
  • ​USB 2.0 Specification
  • ​USB 3.0 Specification
  • ​USB UHCI Design Guide (i.e. specification) rev. 1.1
  • ​USB OHCI Specification rev. 1.0a
  • ​USB EHCI Specification v1.0
  • ​USB EHCI Specification Addendum v1.1
  • ​USB xHCI Specification for USB 3.0
  • ​USB Device Classes specifications
• NIC
  • ​DP8390D/NS32490D NIC Network Interface Controller
  • ​AMD Am79C90 CMOS Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet (C-LANCE)
• Printing
  • ​Undocumented Printing Wiki - Great reference for printer HW information, PDLs