Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote:
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> On Jan 10, 2008 6:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com
> <mailto:gdamore at sun.com>> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
There are other open repositories, but I would like to get something
that holds the documentation relevant to OpenSolaris. Having
documentation on ARM cores (as an example) isn't terribly interesting to
me as an OpenSolaris developer -- at least not until we start working on
an ARM port. :-)
-- Garrett
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> 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.
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> What do folks think? And how would these best be handled? As a
> project
> underneath the device-drivers community, perhaps?
>
> -- Garrett
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> nacho
