Cover up the bug is just a personal opinion. The more acceptable reason may be * They signed a NDA with the IP vendor and can't publish some documents. * They develop some control unit on the chip, this is private property of them, so they don't want to open it. Many companies do so, right? * Open the document will lead to some engineers and marketing guys lost their job, as the open source community do some work. I am not a staff of allwinner, so I don't know how they think exactly.
在 2014年10月11日星期六UTC+8下午11时15分46秒，Simon Kenyon写道： > > On 10/11/14 15:31, jacky lau wrote: > > A big client will buy thousands of chips once. Are there any relation > > between big client and user manual publishing? No. So they don't think > > it's necessary to open their private property. When you are a big > > client, you are VIP, all document and source code is open to you. And > > if publish all technical documentation, competitors will know some > > technical secret (e.g. bug;) they don't want them to know. > > Open world is beautiful, but they will not actively participateif > > there is no return. Why some China soc company publish some documents > > and source code now? I think this is mainly for marketing. But no > > matter how, VIP priority. > so the reason why chip manuals are not published is because there are > bugs in the silicon. gee! who would have thought it. > at least if we knew what they were we could maybe work around them. > > i'm sorry but i don't buy this argument. fear of law suits because of > patent violations is a more plausible reason. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
