Re: Apple's Developer Transition Kit

[vinai <vroopcha@mcw.edu>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:04 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 June 2005 07:55, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > It would be definitely useful for others to start grasping a bit
> > > about how the PowerMac hardware works ;) I could use help in many
> > > places there.
> >
> > Do you have any pointers, reference pages or books to recommend?
> >
> > Most OS websites are very x86 centric and I find it hard to find
> > practical documentation about other architectures.
>
> Not exactly. There is the old MacTech.pdf which gives some insight into
> the macio ASIC (though it did evolve significantly since then), and open
> firmware device-tree is the main source of information.
>
> I've been thinking about doing a talk about the Apple HW for linux
> kongress or such, but with the recent announce, I suppose it's
> pointless. I suppose I could still try to write a document giving an
> overview of how the thing  is setup.

I would also love to be able to help with some of the hardware stuff.  I
am slowly going through the 3rd edition of the device drivers book as my
work and personal committments allow :) ...   But in addition to this,
the PowerPC Programmers' guide (from Motorola, a.k.a. Freescale), and
the Open Firmware guide, is there anything else you'd recommend ?

To be honest, I wish I could be paid to do what you do :)

cheers
vinai