[openbeos] Re: Writing Drivers

  • From: "Rob Tijssen" <rob.tijssen@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:35:16 +0200

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.
>



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