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BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors

Overview This paper is intended for programmers involved in the development of low-level BIOS (basic input/output system) functions, drivers, and operating system kernel modules. The paper covers the implementation-specific features of AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors, as opposed to architectural features. AMD64 architectural features include the AMD64 technology, general-purpose, multimedia, and x87 floating-point registers, as well as other programmer-visible features defined to be constant across all processors.

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Publisher	AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2004	Downloads	205
Format	White Papers
Topics	x86-standard Servers, Processors

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