Developer Docs

This page is meant to collect links to redistributable and published online manuals and specifications, such as hardware manuals, protocol specifications, etc. Also information learned about a piece of hardware that is not readily available in existing docs can be recorded here.

• CPU Architecture
• TCP/IP Networking
• Wireless LAN
• Peripheral Devices and Interfaces

C language

• ​Draft of the C99 standard with corrigenda TC1, TC2, and TC3 included
• ​Latest draft of the C1x standard

System V ABI

• ​System V Application Binary Interface Edition 4.1

Thread Local Storage

• ​ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage

POSIX

• ​The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3

Debugging Data

• ​DWARF Debugging Information Format Version 3

Openmoko FreeRunner

• HelenOS on Neo FreeRunner
• ​Openmoko Wiki

File Systems

• ​ECMA-107 a.k.a. FAT: Volume and File Structure of Disk Cartridges for Information Interchange
• ​ECMA-119 a.k.a. ISO 9660:1988 Volume and File Structure of CDROM for Information Interchange
• ​Microsoft Joliet Extension to ISO 9660 Spec. (unofficial copy)
• ​Universal Disk Format 2.60
• ​Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem
• ​The Second Extended File System Internal Layout

Partition Tables

• ​Wikipedia article on Master boot record
• ​Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table

Floating point

• ​IEEE 754-1985 Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic
• ​Lecture Notes on the Status of IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic

Audio File Formats

• ​Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 (Microsoft) WAVE File Format