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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by monocasa on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:30PM (#18878983)
It was Freescale. NXP has been trying to make their docs harder to get. I was in the process of writing a BSP for their Sabre boards during the acquisition, and they went as far as deleting previously free resources off their site and asking me to pay for a support contract to get them back.

NXP's stance is probably what made others shy away from the chips.

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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by cushychicken on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:38PM (#18879068)
That hasn't been my experience with NXP, but that's a bummer.
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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by joezydeco on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:12PM (#18880952)
Yeah, mine either. I will say that NXP did a fair job of screwing up Freescale's web resources, though.
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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by cushychicken on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:20AM (#18883012)
That, I agree with. It's also annoying that many of the resources that used to be freely available (datasheet, reference manual, other docs) now require a login to download.

Minor hassle, however.

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