Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> There are a few extras, that I'm not planning on supporting (at least
>> not right away). I don't think any of these can be used with USB
>> readers, so its probably not a great loss.
>>
>> 1) lock/unlock card (with a password)
>> 2) set/clear write protection on card (some cards have "region"
>> level support for this, but the latest spec dropped that)
>> 3) "security" commands, related to DRM (I'm not going to support
>> these, so DRM content will not be supported)
>
> Is it that you can't implement these due to lack of specification or
> that they just aren't in scope for the initial phase of the SDcard
> project ? Those are quite interesting to me and I'd like to help work
> out how we can support those types of things in general (not just for
> SDcard) since that functionality is getting more and more common.
Its a little of both, combined with the fact that I don't think that
anyone is using this format for content distribution. (Although I
suppose there could be some MP3 players on the market that use this
feature, but I'm not aware of any.)
I can get specs under NDA.
-- Garrett
