[openbeos] Re: hardware specs -- who's naughty and who's nice?
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:53:19 -0500
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>Michael Phipps wrote:
>>[snip] Writing device drivers, though, is never trivial.
>>Especially without specs. :-/
>>[snip]
>
>I've never done any driver development. What companies
>actually provide these specifications that are needed to produce
>OBOS drivers?
There are two sides to the coin. How to make an OBOS/BeOS/NewOS driver and how
to talk to hardware device foo.
Obviously, we can teach/document how to make a driver from our side.
How to talk to the device? That needs to come from
1) the maker of the device (best case)
2) reverse engineered from an open-source driver
3) from the maker of the "main" chip - for example, the bt848 video sampling
cards
4) reverse engineered from other sources
>It would be nice to put a list of hardware manufacturers
>on the OBOS site somewhere; something like:
>
> "The following list of companies openly provide the necessary
> specs for the following pieces of hardware -- support them! :)"
That will come when we have that more nailed down.
>or at least provide some links to sites that publish this sort
>of information. Anyone know of any?
Much of it depends. Anything in particular I can help with?
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