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Hardware reverse-engineering documentation platform

Build a wiki for sharing structured notes on undocumented chips and peripherals. Target open-source driver developers.

Why now

Successful projects like the M4 driver show demand for collaborative hardware hacking resources.

Who for
Embedded systems engineers
Business model
Sponsored documentation
Effort
A few weeks

Developers writing open drivers spend months reverse-engineering registers and protocols alone. A platform could organize findings by chipset with schematics, register maps, and workarounds.

Implement version control for hardware docs and diff views for revisions. Chip manufacturers might sponsor to reduce community support burden.

Start with a GitWiki for ARM SoCs. The challenge is incentivizing experts to contribute rather than just consume.

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