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
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+1.

-- 
Regards,
Jeremy
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