Hey, this is great stuff!
I wonder though, it would be nice to have an archive of data sheets that
are provided by *other* companies which are used to produce drivers.
Often times, the datasheet that is downloaded once, from the parent
company, can not be found any longer a few years later. For example, I
have data sheets for parts from Macronix, but now Macronix is defunct,
and you cannot download them anymore.
I also have realtek 8139 datasheets, but realtek stopped distributing
them on their website some time ago.
I realize that this is probably legal quagmire, but it would *really* be
helpful to have this archive... already there are a lot of data sheets
that are freely available today that could be posted... e.g. latest
ADMtek/Infineon datasheets, Davicom datasheets, and even Intel Pro/100
datasheets. (Yes, I'm focused on NICs. But one can imagine datasheets
for Intel graphics, wifi, i2c devices, clock chips, etc.)
-- Garrett
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 14:08 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
>
> As part of the ongoing initiative for documenting some of the hardware, a wiki
> page has been set up
>
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home
>
> It would be really cool if a new column to that table could be added which
> points at a location of the OpenSolaris source[s] that adds support for each
> of
> the chips. If anyone is keen to help out, log in and edit freely! (Sun
> employees
> can use their Sun ID and LDAP password, non-Sun can register for an account
> [1]).
>
>
> Glynn
>
> [1] You might like to ping Phillip Russell to make sure the account is
> successfully created
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