Hi all,

I am working on OS'es and got now a few Sun machines (Ultra 1 & 5).

Does someone know a good introduction to assembly for these machines?

Sofar, I cant make any sense of the trap handling using the V8
Specification from SPARC.org.

Thnx,

- Tom

Hi,

I found this book rather ok, as an introductory book of course (there
aren't many anyway). I guess it all depends on your general computer
architecture skills. You might find this too introductory. Oh well.
Also keep in mind that I am not sure if it includes v9 stuff.

TITLE SPARC architecture, assembly language programming, and C /
Richard P. Paul.
AUTHOR Paul, Richard P.
PUBLISHED Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1994.
DESCRIPT xvi, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Reduced instruction set computers.
Assembler language (Computer program language)
C (Computer program language)
CONTENTS 1. The Computer -- 2. SPARC Architecture -- 3. Digital Logic and
Binary Numbers -- 4. Binary Arithmetic -- 5. The Stack -- 6.
Data Structures -- 7. Subroutines -- 8. Machine Instructions --
9. External Data and Text -- 10. Input/Output -- 11. Floating-
Point -- 12. Traps and Exceptions -- 13. Memory Management --
14. Other Architectures -- A Macro Definitions -- B
Multiplication by Constants -- C User Mode Machine Instructions
-- D Synthetic Instructions and Pseudo-Ops -- E Instructions
Sorted Alphabetically -- F Powers of Two -- G Macro Language
Processor m4.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-438) and index.
ADD TITLE SPARC architecture, assembly language programming & C.
ISBN 0138768897.
ABN IMM # 9931024.
93010038.


cheers,
dimitris


tvburger wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on OS'es and got now a few Sun machines (Ultra 1 & 5).
>
> Does someone know a good introduction to assembly for these machines?
>
> Sofar, I cant make any sense of the trap handling using the V8
> Specification from SPARC.org.
>
> Thnx,
>
> - Tom

--
( | ) Dimitris Tsifakis <Dimitrios.Tsifakis@anu.edu.au>
/_\ VK1KBN / SV1DET (ham radio)
/\_/\ Australia

Hi,

I found this book rather ok, as an introductory book of course (there
aren't many anyway). I guess it all depends on your general computer
architecture skills. You might find this too introductory. Oh well.
Also keep in mind that I am not sure if it includes v9 stuff.

TITLE SPARC architecture, assembly language programming, and C /
Richard P. Paul.
AUTHOR Paul, Richard P.
PUBLISHED Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1994.
DESCRIPT xvi, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Reduced instruction set computers.
Assembler language (Computer program language)
C (Computer program language)
CONTENTS 1. The Computer -- 2. SPARC Architecture -- 3. Digital Logic and
Binary Numbers -- 4. Binary Arithmetic -- 5. The Stack -- 6.
Data Structures -- 7. Subroutines -- 8. Machine Instructions --
9. External Data and Text -- 10. Input/Output -- 11. Floating-
Point -- 12. Traps and Exceptions -- 13. Memory Management --
14. Other Architectures -- A Macro Definitions -- B
Multiplication by Constants -- C User Mode Machine Instructions
-- D Synthetic Instructions and Pseudo-Ops -- E Instructions
Sorted Alphabetically -- F Powers of Two -- G Macro Language
Processor m4.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-438) and index.
ADD TITLE SPARC architecture, assembly language programming & C.
ISBN 0138768897.
ABN IMM # 9931024.
93010038.


cheers,
dimitris


tvburger wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on OS'es and got now a few Sun machines (Ultra 1 & 5).
>
> Does someone know a good introduction to assembly for these machines?
>
> Sofar, I cant make any sense of the trap handling using the V8
> Specification from SPARC.org.
>
> Thnx,
>
> - Tom

--
( | ) Dimitris Tsifakis
/_\ VK1KBN / SV1DET (ham radio)
/\_/\ Australia

>>>>> "Dimitrios" == Dimitrios Tsifakis <dtsifakis@ieeeeeeee.org> writes:

Dimitrios> Hi,
Dimitrios> I found this book rather ok, as an introductory book of course (there
Dimitrios> aren't many anyway). I guess it all depends on your general computer
Dimitrios> architecture skills. You might find this too introductory. Oh well.
Dimitrios> Also keep in mind that I am not sure if it includes v9 stuff.

Dimitrios> TITLE SPARC architecture, assembly language programming, and C /
Dimitrios> Richard P. Paul.

I agree. It's a good introduction and explains the calling sequence
and register window usage fairly well.

There is a small section on V9, but mostly just briefly introduces the
new instructions. Enough to know they exist, but you'll probably need
the Sparc V9 Architecture Manual for more info.

Ray