Jumping Right In?

[Solar]

I said: "it's not enough"!
I didn't say that you don't need to have it, you MUST have Intel (or AMD) manuals!

Language barrier.

[geezusfreeek]

Thanks for your quick responses!

Okay, so several smallish projects first it is (the answer I expected as most dev things are this way, but I just wanted to check that everybody would agree before possibly wasting my time).... I'm still in the stage of reading up on things and acquiring the documentation that looks the most useful, but fairly soon, you guys should be hearing all kinds of questions and complaints from me.

[JAAman]

for documentation look at these sites:

indespensible intel manual (be sure to get a hard copy):
## ---- ----- ------ Intel Manuals

the Ralf Brown Interupt List:
## ---- ----- RBIL

full of links and docs to hardware information:
OSRC

lots of tutorials:
Boni-Fide OSdever

hard drive programming information:
ATA-ATAPI

[Solar]

Tut, tut. You forget our very own OS FAQ...

[distantvoices]

solar has a point here with the failing attempts.

I for example have written several throw-away bootsector code and small "kernels" just for experience. These were the training thingies while I 've tampered with a printer driver for Gimp Print - a prohject which failed in the middle of it's way to success for my printer broke.

In the last four years, I've smashed lots of Kernel modules or service modules into shingles in order to rebuild them and to make something more senseful outta them.

But I haven't bothered to redo everything from scratch. Why bother with this. BlueIllusion works, it doesn't fail on me and it still amazes me with quite stunning twists of evolution (see the recently born tcp/ip suite)

Of course, there are Things I'd do differently if I 'd restart it from scratch, know ya?

stay safe

[JAAman]

Tut, tut. You forget our very own OS FAQ...

well I though that was kindof implied -- being the same site as this

well actually i just copied my 'OSdev' list and it isn't on that -- this board (and osdev.org) is on my daly list, and if i need to visit the FAQ i just click the link

edit: (in case anyone wants them)
Messege Boards:
OSDev :: The Place to Start for Operating System Developers
Mega-Tokyo Message Board - Index

the MT FAQ



there is that better? ;D