[ogb-discuss] datasheet repository

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

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
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