The Open Hardware Certification Program

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= The Open Hardware Certification Program is a self-certification program for hardware manufacturers. Sponsored by the FSF, Debian, and FreeBSD.

URL = http://www.debian.org/OpenHardwre


Description

The Open Hardware Certification Program says:


"... is a self-certification program for hardware manufacturers. By certifying a hardware device as Open, the manufacturer makes a set of promises about the availability of documentation for programming the device-driver interface of a specific hardware device.... sufficient documentation for the device must be available for a competent system programmer to write a device-driver." (http://www.opencores.org/articles.cgi/view/12)