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From: "Thomas Langås" <tlan@stud.ntnu.no>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Website with hardware tech. specs ?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:54:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010914085438.A13292@stud.ntnu.no> (raw)

Hi!

Today, there's no "one place" where you can get tech. specs, and a lot of
companies hesitates to even put them online. Needless to say, this is a
problem when you want to write drivers, and/or fix drivers.

What I'm thinking of, is creating a website, where the hardware creators can
supply details; upload tech. specs, write contact info, etc. And, developers
can browse this database. I was thinking of a solution where the hardware
creators could choose weither or not they wanted to make tech. specs.
public, and if they didn't a developer needed to tell the manufacturer that
he was interessted, and then the manufacturer could give needed access to
specs, and if nescesseray send the needed hardware to write a driver.

Is this a silly idea?   Do you think anyone will use such a site?  My idea
was to centralize tech. specs, to make it easier to browse them.

-- 
Thomas

             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-14  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-14  6:54 Thomas Langås [this message]
2001-09-14  8:15 ` Website with hardware tech. specs ? BALBIR SINGH
2001-09-15 12:14 ` Karel Kulhavy

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