Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?

From: Alan
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 06:17:46 EST


> Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the
> the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some
> time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux.

Don't hold your breath either. The reverse engineering work done a long
time ago on some of the memory sticks suggests the "security" (DRM)
features are actually done in software by the driver so I doubt we'll see
specs soon.

Alan
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