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/linux/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.
