Samsung documentation

[Martin]

You'll also see that the manual review will refuse the access if the 
email address given does not appear to be an official company one (even 
in cases where it actually is).
...so it's not even as easy as "just register"

regards

Martin


Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> we are playing with some new hardware, among others using the Samsung 
> 2443 and 6400 CPUs.
> One of the things that is really important for Openmoko is open 
> documentation.
> That's the reason we chose 2442 in the past, the documents could be 
> freely downloaded from Samsung's web site.
> We are generally suspicious about that, because companies may choose 
> to withdraw this at any time.
> So what we really prefer is documentation that we can REDISTRIBUTE 
> from our own servers.
> Similar to how Intel is now releasing documentation under a Creative 
> Commons license. That's the ideal.
>
> Back to Samsung, we were promised several times that they would give 
> us this redistribution rights permission eventually. It wasn't that 
> important at the time, because we could point to a URL at samsung.com
> Well, like in (almost) every good marriage, things turned out 
> differently than promised :-)
> Samsung recently decided to put the documents on their site behind a 
> 'registration' form that needs a manual 'review' before you can 
> download their documents.
> They are only 1 step away from an NDA.
>
> So what I'm trying to do now is to download documents from their 
> website, and see under what kind of restrictions I can get them.
> What documents do we need?
> 2443 User Manual
> 6400 User Manual
> they have some new PMU, anybody interested in that?
>
> Please let me know which documents we are looking for...
> Thanks,
> Wolfgang
>
>