Hi,
2008/6/5 Franck Bourdonnec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Le Thursday 05 June 2008 17:13:31 Accord Tsai, vous avez écrit :
> > They had not been terribly enthusiastic about it, but I have received
> > an email reply from the marketing manager.
> >
> > He explains that "due to company policy we are unable to provide
> > datasheets. Furthermore, the datasheets may not be sufficient for your
> > needs. Perhaps you could tell me what kind of data you need, and we'll
> > see if there's anything I can do."
> >
> > I've replied about the hardware capabilities and register mapping.
> >
>
> it's fairly simple: the doc they gave to allow someone using the microsoft
> DDK
> to write a driver for windows for their chip. No more, no less.
>
> There is no thousand of doc. It is available or it is not. ALI won't
> rewrite
> a subset of doc for a chip(alim5603c) specifically for 'another system'
> (linux).
>
> The existing doc was enougth for window, the same is sufficient for linux!
> Linux is not a martian OS, it is a system running on standart PC
> architecture.
> Remember them that simple fact ;-)
>
There might be no doc or the doc might be of such a low quality that they
don't want to spend any engineering resources to fix it up for release.
Sometimes the ASIC engineer designing the chip sits next to the driver
writer and the driver is writting using informal communication (i. e by
asking questions without any formal specs).
This might be embarrasing for the company to admit and instead they try to
cover everything by blaming on "company policy".
This, of course, is pure speculation on my side.
Regards,
Erik
>
>
>
> Franck
>
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