Dear Rudolf I can understand your feelings and complaint absolutely, I'm sorry for the trouble and obstacles brought you. I will discuss with my managers about it and express your meaning, I think we may improve it in our future cooperation. Thanks a lot. Best Regards Chunhao 2005-3-27 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rudolf Marek [mailto:R.Marek at sh.cvut.cz] > Sent: 2005??3??26?? 20:50 > To: PI14 HUANG0 > Cc: R.Marek at sh.cvut.cz; khali at linux-fr.org; PI10 LHHsu; PI14 DZSHEN; PI13 CFLi; > sensors at Stimpy.netroedge.com > Subject: RE: Fw: Ask for some information about motherboard ASUS NCLV-D > > Hello, > > > I have two questions here: > > (1) As we know, it will be very inconvenient for those users with ASUS > > NCLV-D motherboard and want to use w83792d driver under linux-2.4, if they > > have to write the value "0x08" into "0x04b9" by themselves each time. > > After talking with Jean we agreed on this: > > I'm sorry there is no easy way to fix this. We consider this as BIOS bug > and it should be fixed by ASUS. If companies use "enterprise 2.4 linux" > I hope they will complain about this and ASUS removes such stupid > restriction. Userspace possibilty is left for such users. Their discomfort > is ASUS fault. > > My offer: > > Maybe you should ask ASUS to give you full list of motherboards that are > hiding your chips (and of course how to unlock them). I'm willing to > implement quirks.c for 2.6 kernels but thats all I could do for you. > > My oppinion, but I think others will agree on this too: > > I'm sorry, we strongly belive that this practices are just putting > obstacles to our work. I know people werent happy with their proprietary > ASMA software under Linux. Maybe thats the reason you are writing the > driver for lm_sensors infarstructure. > > Moreover more obstacles are set: > > 1) Chips docs under NDA > 2) Bus chips under NDA > 3) Hide and seek games with ASUS > 4) Motherboard manufactures refusing to tell us what formulas they use. > (they want NDA, or simply do not respond) > > Please help us to change this practice! I can't get why they are doing > such things. We are simply working on support of their motherboards for > free and they dont get it!!! > > Regards > > Rudolf ===========================================================================================The privileged confidential information contained in this email is intended for use only by the addressees as indicated by the original author of this email. If you are not the addressee indicated in this email or are not responsible for delivery of the email to such person, please kindly reply the sender indicating accordingly and delete all copies of it from your computer and network server immediately. We thank you for your cooperation. It is advisable that any unauthorized use of confidential information of Winbond is strictly prohibited; and any information in this email that does not relate to the official business of Winbond shall be deemed as neither given nor endorsed by Winbond.===========================================================================================If your computer is unable to decode Chinese font, please ignore the following message. They essentially repea! t the English statement above.???H???????t?????q?l???]???????K?????T, ?????v???o?H?H???w?????H?H???\????. ?????z???D?Q???w?????H?H???]???????]?b???g???v?????????U???????H??, ???z?i?????o?H?H?????Y?N?H???q?q???P???????A???????H????. ?????z???X?@, ?????????P??. ?S??????, ???????g???v?????????????q?l?????K???T???????O?Q?Y???T????. ?H???P?????q?l???~?L???????e,???o?????????q?l?????????N??.
