Software Requirement && DiskOnChip

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Fri Feb 18 09:45:53 EST 2005


On Fri, 18 February 2005 18:41:29 +0400, Ara Avanesyan wrote:
> 
> My question is from theory only:)
> Can't then the driver writer copy-paste the documentation to source files as
> comment? really...
> And what could be the reason to not sharing the hardware documentation to
> the community???

The legal papers signed before receiving the documentation.  In some
unfortunate cases, people get documentation und "You may not show
anyone!" style licenses.  With that, the alternatives are either
drivers without hardware documentation or no drivers at all.

Jörn

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