26/07/2004 02:45:28, Carl Worth wrote: >Just a couple of days ago at OLS, Tim Riker told me that after recent >negotiations between certain large companies, it was decided that the SD >specification and an open source driver would be made available. This is splendid news, and means I can stop worrying at all about supporting memory stick (spit). A Balloon-ish question - Balloon 2.x always had the smartmedia socket mounted directly on the board. This was convenient for developers, and was sort-of sane, since the SM cards weren't hot- swappable, However, it did use up a fair amount of otherwise useful board real estate, and would have been annoying for anyone wanting to poke the card through a hole in their product. The MMC / SD / SDIO interface will be smaller and hot-pluggable. It's also possible that (in SDIO mode) it'll have some expansion card or other in it, rather than a memory card. Would people prefer it a) mounted on the board, much like the SM card was b) mounted on a string, with just a connector to the Balloon board c) both? Steve