On Jan 7, 2008 12:46 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 9:43 AM, Tom Sylla tsylla@gmail.com wrote:
You can buy the mindshare PCIe book (they have electronic versions, too) to get a regurgitation of most of the information in the specification.
OK, will buy the book.
I actually got admonished by a PCI guy several years ago when I complained on openib mailing list about the way PCI SIG handles the spec. "it's no longer members-only" I was told, "you can just download it".
Hence I am disappointed to find out said PCI guy was wrong.
Next time ask for a link and a license *immediately*. That way you either get the spec (Best Outcome) or it becomes immediately apparent that the spec is not actually open (Consolation Prize).
This reminds me of when I trying to get free, open access to Adobe's Flash and FLV file format specifications. While doing research online, several people tried to convince me that the spec was "open" and that I could just get it "from over here or there," however no one could ever give me specifics. When I finally got through to actual people at Adobe (product managers and engineers), I was convinced that their file formats were, in fact, closed, and that they had no intention of allowing open access.
So yeah -- get it in writing, or it doesn't mean a thing.