Hello. A couple of weeks ago I tried lm_sensors and none of few of the values made any sense. Then I read the FAQ and did as it said: I asked Via to release a better datasheet. First they asked me to sign a NDA, but when I refused, they sent me a datasheet. Being a little sceptic, I doubt the datasheet will help very much. If I could get it by simply sending a couple of emails, you probably have gotten it the same way too. But here it is anyway. You should add this incident to the faq, so that you don't get the same pdf mailed to you again and again :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:19:45 +1000 From: Fiona Gatt <fiona.gatt at viaarena.com> To: 'Mikko Tuumanen' <m at sorvankyla.yok.utu.fi> Subject: RE: Bad readings from the VIA 686A! Hi Mikko, It is just company policy. But I have received permission to provide it to you without any NDA. Please find the datasheet attached. Regards Fiona Gatt VIA Arena Team Web Media Liaison VIA Technologies, Inc. www.viaarena.com www.viatech.com -----Original Message----- From: Mikko Tuumanen [mailto:m at sorvankyla.yok.utu.fi] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 4:10 PM To: Fiona Gatt Subject: RE: Bad readings from the VIA 686A! > Could you please complete the attached NDA and email a scanned copy of You obviously didn't get it. Please read the page http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html# Section%204.17 again. lm_sensors is Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source). If one does sign a NDA, then how is he or she supposed to be able to release the source, when the NDA probably forbids it? Please release the datasheet without the NDA. Your competitors are not going to reverse engineer the HDL code of your chip from the datasheet :-) What are you afraid of anyway? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VT82C686A SB datasheet rev 1.8.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1206922 bytes Desc: Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20030909/caa68d47/attachment.pdf
