Re: [Balloon] Re: Next Balloon

Jim Gettys told me about it and said that the spec would be on the SD web site. I'm on my phone at the moment so I didn't look. :)

http://sdcard.org/

Would be where I'd start.

There is.SD support in the hh.o cvs tree. Also MV has drivers that work.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Worth <cworth@east.isi.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:45:28 
To:"Nick Bane" <nick@cecomputing.co.uk>
Cc:david@itechnic.co.uk,       "Balloon@Balloonboard.Org" <balloon@balloonboard.org>,       Tim Riker <Tim@rikers.org>
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Re: Next Balloon

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:00:31 +0100, "Nick Bane" wrote:
> A comment on the off-chip storage issue. Using MMC/SD might be more
> general purpose than memory stick. There exist GPL drivers for 2 and 4
> bit MMC interfaces and (I believe) there exists a GPL SD port despite
> the licensing problems that prevented it in the past - can anyione
> confirm this?

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.

Tim, do you have pointers to bits for these things yet?

-Carl


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