What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1. September 21, 2007 This article was contributed by Ulrich Drepper [Editor's introduction: Ulrich Drepper recently approached us asking if we would be interested in publishing a lengthy document he had written on how memory and software interact.
We did not have to look at the text for long to realize that it would be of interest to many LWN readers. Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I: Early Initialization.