> 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.)
Out of curiosity, I looked for that rtl8139 datasheet. Seems there are all sorts of websites that will charge for access to old datasheets. If there's a legal quagmire in redistributing datasheets that were once freely made available online, then I wonder how they can _charge_ for them of all things. Perhaps posting links would be less of a problem? How about links through the WayBackMachine (archive.org)? Although when as in one of your examples (see below) this ends up being to an ftp: URL, that may not help. (BTW, I did find a copy of the RTL8139 datasheet online at a parts store, which may be a strategy for finding them for free. Example: http://www.futurlec.com/Datasheet/Realtek/RTL8139.pdf; also, I think I found it on their website, although I have a problem with ftp: URLs at the moment.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
