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


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