Website with hardware tech. specs ?

Website with hardware tech. specs ?

[Thomas Langås]

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

Re: Website with hardware tech. specs ?

[BALBIR SINGH]

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I would love to see this.

Balbir

Thomas Langås wrote:
> 
> 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
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Re: Website with hardware tech. specs ?

[Karel Kulhavy]

Try to look at http://chip.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~pcguts. It's just the thing you
want, but it is suspended in animation at the moment, because I didn't find
nearly anyone who would be interested in it. I have done it as my school term's
work for low-lovel computer course.

Clock

> 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.
>