Richard Smith rsmith@bitworks.com writes:
ron minnich wrote:
Best vendors we've seen on this list: micron. You ask for docs, you get Mbytes of pdf and other info. AMD for the K8 Next best (i.e. you don't get 100 % but if you ask you might) Intel (they've been very good in the last year)
Intel is a hit and miss. Like Ron says you just have to ask.. We looked at trying to use the 440MX chipset to replace our 44BX based board and was told that even though Bitworks already has an NDA in place with Arrow (Arrow is our Intel vendor) we were going to have to sigh a extra Double-dog secret NDA for 440MX info. (The 'red' cover agreement rather than the 'yellow' cover agreemnet) and it was very doubtful that any of that stuff would be releaseable under GPL code. So we had to bail and stick with the 440bx which has almost all the info available on the website.
Just to underscore this Intel routinely does not put a couple of registers in their public docs. For which reverse engineering may actually be easier than getting Intels Double-Dog secret NDAs. But actually knowing what is going on always helps.
Eric