OS Development Papers

DMA

• How does the DMA work
  by pcguts on Jul 9, 2003
• DMA Programming ((PDF format))
  by Justin Deltener on Aug 13, 2003

Hard Disks

• Disk Structures
  by on Jul 9, 2003

Floppy Disks

• 82077AA Floppy Controller Datasheet ((pdf format, 586KB))
  by Intel Corporation on Jul 31, 2003

Mouse/Keyboard

• IBM PC Keyboard Information for Software Developers
  by Chris Giese on Jul 9, 2003
• Wout Merten's Guide To Keyboard Programming v1.1 Complete
  by Wout Merten on Jul 9, 2003
• Interfacing the AT Keyboard
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Keyboard Layouts for non-English Scripts
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Sun's Keyboard Layouts
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Russian Keyboard: standard and phonetic (transliterated, homophonic)
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Russian Keyboard Layout
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Mouse Hardware
  by Tomi Engdahl on Jul 9, 2003
• The PS/2 Mouse Interface
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• PC mouse information
  by on Jul 9, 2003

Video

• I/O Registers for Standard VGA Cards ((TXT format))
  by Shaggy on Jul 9, 2003
• Tauron VGA Utils ( actually source, but there's a good amount of comments in it (ZIP 135kb))
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• XFree86 Video Timings ( some XFree86 specific info, along with some generic info)
  by on Jul 9, 2003

PowerPC

• PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide
  by on Jul 9, 2003

x86-64

• AMD's x86-64 Docs
  by on Jul 9, 2003

x86

• Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture ((pdf format))
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference Manual A-M ((pdf format))
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3: System Programming Guide ((pdf format))
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual ( (TXT format, ZIPed to 203K) )
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference Manual N-Z ((pdf format))
  by on Jul 9, 2003

General CPUs

• AMD CPU Docs
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Intel's Docs
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• The CPUID Guide
  by Lawrence Curwood on Jul 9, 2003
• 8253/54 CPU Timer Datasheet ((pdf format, 43.5KB))
  by Intel Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• Plug & Play BIOS Specifications ((pdf format, 194KB))
  by Compaq Computer Corporation, Intel Corporation, Pheonix BIOS Corporation on Jul 31, 2003

General Hardware

• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List ZIPed ((ZIP 1.9MB))
  by on Jul 9, 2003

Misc/Other

• Multiboot Spec
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Interfacing the Parellel Port ((pdf format, 76.4KB))
  by Craig Peacock on Jul 31, 2003
• Interfacing the Serial / RS232 Port ((pdf format, 139KB))
  by Craig Peacock on Jul 31, 2003
• DP8390D/NS32490D NIC Network Interface Controller ((pdf format, 683KB))
  by National Semiconductor Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• DP8390 Network Interface Controller - An Introductory Guide ((pdf format, 157KB))
  by National Semiconductor Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• The Workings of the PCI BIOS ((pdf format, 57KB))
  by PCI Special Interest Group on Jul 31, 2003
• Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification ((pdf format, 287KB))
  by Microsoft Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• Trends in Operating System Design: Towards a Customisable Persistent Micro-Kernel ((pdf format, 98.8KB))
  by David Hulse and Alan Dearle on Jul 31, 2003
• Plug & Play External COM (Serial) Device Specification ((pdf format, 74.2KB))
  by Microsoft Corporation, Hayes Microcomputer Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• Plug & Play ISA Specifications ((pdf format, 258KB))
  by Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• Plug & Play COM (Serial) Specifications ((pdf format, 39.5KB))
  by Microsoft Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• Writing Drivers for the DP8390 NIC Family of Ethernet Controllers ((pdf format, 125KB))
  by National Semiconductor on Jul 31, 2003

USB/Firewire

• The Official USB docs
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Universal Serial Bus Device Driver Development
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• Plug & Play Design Specifications for External IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices ((pdf format, 58KB))
  by Microsoft Corporation on Jul 31, 2003
• The Universal Serial Bus (Printed Book)
  by Benjamin David Lunt on Jan 28, 2012

Filesystems

• FAT12/16/32 info from Microsoft ( in DOC format)
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• ISO9660 Simplified for DOS/Windows
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• A Table of Partition Types
  by on Jul 9, 2003
• The Extended-2 Filesystem Overview ((pdf format, 168KB))
  by Gadi Oxman on Jul 29, 2003
• Journaling the Linux ext2fs File System ((pdf format, 27KB))
  by Stephen C. Tweedie on Jul 30, 2003
• Long File Name Specification ((pdf format, 84KB))
  by Microsoft on Jul 30, 2003
• Official FAT 12/16/32 Specification ((pdf format, 164KB))
  by Microsoft on Jul 30, 2003
• ReiserFS On-Disk Structures
  by Gerson Kurz on Aug 5, 2003