On 8/24/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-code mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code > +1.
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