On Friday 01 September 2006 19:40, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > Like, what docs does a vendor engineering division give to the developers > who write the drivers internally? They don't give them bad docs. They give > them functional, useful docs. Does it need to be stated that any project > wanting to compose useful support for the same hardware shouldn't get the > same level of docs?
MUAAHHHHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!! "they don't give them bad docs"!?!?!?? Have you seen the quality level of docs given out from the engineering divisions at most chip manufacturers? Usually it is in "edit state" and hacked up from the previous version in the chip family. Graphic chip vendors are the worse. The manuals usually doesn't even reflect the actual functionality but what the designer whished for at planning stage. So even if docs *were* given out they would be incomplete and full of bugs! Why? Because they were never intended for public use! The GOOD docs does not usually exist.
