This sounds like a issue for the drivers community, nothing the OGB
needs to be involved with. The only advice I have is you will need
to be very careful to ensure you only copy documents for which you
have permission from the creators, to make sure you are not violating
either copyright or non-disclosure agreements. Just because you can
download it freely doesn't mean you can republish it.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Garrett D'Amore 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.
>
> 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
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