This assumes there *is* documentation. [LWN.net]

This assumes there is documentation.

Posted Oct 11, 2006 1:22 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: This assumes there *is* documentation. by pizza
Parent article: Device drivers and non-disclosure agreements

What hasn't happened yet is a hardware vendor set up a wiki (with reasonable editorial control) and let the community do the documentation.
The reason that hasn't happened yet is that no business case has been made.
I'm pretty sure that if a company felt there was profit in doing so, it would have since been done.
I, for one, wouldn't attack Mr. Corbet for writing a driver under NDA. Spreading computational power to other corners of the planet, even under sub-optimal conditions, is likely to help create better market conditions for hardware vendors to move openly documented chips.
Or just grow a legion of reverse-engineers.
Something is better than nothing.

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