On Jan 10, 2008 6:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote: > It occurs to me that many things are often written for OpenSolaris, > using data sheets which may be public. However, it is not uncommon for > chip vendors to remove or relocate data sheets such that the data sheet > used to write a driver vanishes after some time. > > 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.
this would be useful not only for opensolaris but for a lot of other opensource projects, perhaps we should also talk to the *bsd community and set up something together? > > > 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. > > What do folks think? And how would these best be handled? As a project > underneath the device-drivers community, perhaps? > > -- Garrett > nacho -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080110/1bda016e/attachment.html>
