[openbeos] Re: Writing Drivers

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:54:24 +0200 (MEST)

En réponse à Rob Tijssen <rob.tijssen@xxxxxxx>:

> 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 

On the Wiki:
http://wiki.bebits.com/page/DriverDevelopment

François.

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