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Old 31st May 2008
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Generally speaking, if the manufacturer provided such low-level specs, the drivers would have been written long ago. The big problem with hardware support is that they are unavailable.
Occasionally, they make them available under Non-Disclosure Agreements, which allows someone who agreed to them to write drivers. If they are able under that agreement to release the source, then others can study the source and reconstruct some of the information, to implement a driver in anther OS. The licensing of that source code is often another impediment. Arg, it's a mess.

Generally, getting low-level info on hardware is like pulling teeth. It's like they don't want customers.
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