> I want to propose a new project for SDcard drivers. > I'm the leader, and > 'm working on the code for SDHCI, SDcard, SDHC, and > MMC cards. > > The code, for the moment, is closed, while we work > out the licensing > agreements (Sun will have to pay a trade membership > fee), but we hope to > get that addressed. In the meantime, I hope I can > get the project started. > > (I would not object if someone decided to put this > project under a > larger "flash-media" umbrella, although I know of > know project at > present to enable Memstick/MemstickDuo, or xD cards. > CF media support > s "automatic" for the most part.) >
I'm sure the laptop users would love that; I've got a laptop (not presently working) with one of those slots that's not useful right now under Solaris. Certainly it would be more convenient to use that than to carry a fairly large USB reader around (which would work now). But I did run into something hardware-wise that might reduce the demand. Just the other day, I got a SanDisk SD-HC card (4GB) at Costco, and it included a tiny one-slot USB adaptor, not much bigger than the card itself plus the USB connector on one end. If those tiny readers become givaways (or nearly so), it would become less inconvenient to take them along, since they'd take practically no space in one's laptop case. Indeed, I'd say they blur the line between an SD card and a USB memory stick. This message posted from opensolaris.org
