ARM Architecture Reference Manual available for download

[Catalin Marinas]

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 02:10 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I thought people in the ARM Linux community may be interested - the
> > latest ARM ARM (covering ARMv7) is now available for download to anyone
> > who goes through a simple registration process (no approval required)
> > and accepts a click-through license. Note that the Proprietary Notice in
> > the ARM ARM was changed as well with the latest update.
> 
> Can you give a brief summary of the license?  I don't want to register
> just to find the license is unacceptable (again) because it would
> prevent me from working on an emulator(!) or another device, such as
> an FPGA, implementing the same instruction set.

Those explicit clauses seem to have been dropped from the new
proprietary note but I can't tell whether they may be implied by other
clauses. Apart from the standard no copying, intellectual property
rights, no warranty etc., you get something about not using it to
determine whether implementations of the ARM architecture infringe third
party patents.
        
However, I'm *not authorised* to give any form of legal advise so you
would need to either interpret it yourself or ask a lawyer.
> 
> > To do this, go to http://infocenter.arm.com/ => ARM architecture =>
> > Reference Manuals => ... => registration link (only name, e-mail address
> > and company name are strictly required).
> 
> Even if you don't have a company?

You could probably write something like "self-employed" in that field as
there don't seem to be checks on it apart from its presence (the
registration is instant, so no approval required).

-- 
Catalin