It could be nice to put everyones links to documentation, on the WIKI-pages in bebits or maybe to be collected on openbeos.rog ----- Original Message ----- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:18 AM Subject: [openbeos] Re: Writing Drivers > En réponse à john 'soco' robinson <soco@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > On the topic of this (or maybe this is off topic :) ), maybe we could > > > > > get a team of none programmers such as myself to round up source > > codes/ > > > specs for hardware? > > > > i've seen this done on other projects and they throw > > them in the CVS repositories because some specs > > like to disappear over time. anyway, if someone > > has the time i can suggest the following starting points. > > > > > > ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/manuals/ (for audio) > > http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/doc/specs/ic/ (different things) > > http://www.epanorama.net/links/pc/index.html (various... tons of > > links and general information) > > > > Here are some of my links > > submitted by Bryan on BeShare (archived them, I can share > them on BeShare): > http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/general/devices/chips/pdf > http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/general/devices/cirruslogic/pubs > (some datasheets) > http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/general/devices/matrox/mga/archive/linu x/2002 > (some source codes) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kato/pc98-arch.html > Overview of PC-98 hardware and BIOS architecture > > http://www.cirrus.com/design/products/pubs/ > > PCI IDs > http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/pci/pcidb > http://www.yourvote.com/pci/pciread.asp?sort=venid seems down atm, nice though > > IEEE stuff (firewire and // port stuff) > ftp://ftp.lexmark.com/pub/ieee/ > > I also have an USB99.PDF, don't remember where from. > > > > oh i don't really suggest throwing everyone into > > cvs but to collect them somewhere in case company a > > buys company b and removes the specs or the company > > just decides to remove their links and require NDAs for the > > information. > > > > Yeah, this kind of stuff is rare and precious :^) > > François. >