Mark A. Zottola writes:
>
> I would like to second Alan's request. Our port of LINUX to the Indigo2 has
> ground to an unceremonious halt for a lack of hardware documentation. I
> understand that there are legal considerations. Would it not be possible to
> release the documentation under some sort of non-disclosure agreement? As
> we are writing code, if we do not :
>
> 1) include specific citations of the documentation within the comments, or
> 2) discuss those hardware matters deemed as proprietary within the comments
>
> then it seems we could be able to satisfy any non-disclosure agreement SGI
> would have while working under the disclosure constraint of the LINUX's
> GPL. It seems there is an eminently workable way around this if reasonable
> people can come together to discuss this reasonably.
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For serious developers, we can definitely provide the Indy documentation,
which covers quite a bit of Indigo R4000 and Indigo2, although there are
differences in some places, notably due to those machines using an earlier
revision of the I/O controller (HPC). We are still working on getting a
more general policy on release of documentation, including selected bits
of low-level IRIX code (at least where license issues do not arise). The
Indy situation was a special case, done some time ago.
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