It's not easy even if you make appliances and sell a good number of their NICs. At a company where I worked a few years ago, we had a performance problem and it took us months to get any datasheets. When that didn't help, it took us about the same amount of time to get errata.
It is not fun.
--dho
> So, a month has gone by and a slice of raspberry pi is looking more and
> more tempting these days, especially since "official" delivery seems to
> have happened last week. Has anyone yet chanced an introduction of one
> to plan9? I would guess the initial booting would be the biggest
> hurdle.
Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is a
bit of a painful project all in itself.