Re: [iPAQ] SD Card protocol specs

On 27 Feb 2003 13:47:02 +0000
Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 13:43, Jeff Sutherland wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:12 am, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 09:01, Marc Baaden wrote:
> > > > Just a thought, would it be possible and permitted for someone
> > > > not having signed the NDA to reverse-engineer the binary Zaurus
> > > > driver and write an open-source one based on the
> > > > reverse-engineering ?
> > > Depends on the jurisdiction where the work was carried out. In
> > > the US, I think this would almost certainly be prohibited by law.
> > > It might be OK in Europe, though I think the SD Consortium would
> > > probably try to make life miserable for anybody who did this.
> > > p.
> > Why not just write a driver to support the MMC protocol?
[...]
> However, an SD driver would still be preferable because MMC cards tend
> not to be available in such high capacities as SD.

And additionally think of the new multi-purpose SD cards, like camera
(OK, not particular useful :) Bluetooth and even WLAN. Those would be
really interesting and are IMHO SD only wothout a MMC compatibility
mode.

> p.
CU
  nils faerber

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