On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> I think it would be very useful to have a public repository of data
> sheets which were obtained publicly (without any click thru agreements
> or such, and certainly not under NDA!) and which were used in Solaris
> device drivers so that future maintainers can be assured of having
> reference materials available when possible.

+1, but not sure how we would go about collecting them and knowing which 
ones we have.

> I actually have such data sheets for a few of the parts whose drivers
> I've worked on, and I'd be happy to start such a repository.

I can ask my manager to find out if there is any formal collection of them 
or if we have some type of accountability for them.

> What do folks think?  And how would these best be handled?  As a project
> underneath the device-drivers community, perhaps?

Absolutely we should do this if possible, gteat idea.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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