On October 3, 2017 1:20:45 PM HST, Charles Z Henry <czhenry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 5:49 PM, David W. Jones <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >wrote: >> >> >> On October 3, 2017 11:50:07 AM HST, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> >wrote: >>>Bernardo Barros <bernardo.barros@xxxxxxx> writes: >>>Do modern laptops still have Expresscard slots? >> >> I don't think so. My 2-year-old laptop only offers USB ports and an >SD card slot. >> >> I understand that SD cards can be other things than storage - I think >there are SD wifi cards, for example. > >The SD WiFi cards are a more exotic beast altogether than a peripheral >device. They are ~70MHz Linux computers all on their own: >https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-tiny-linux-server/ Ah, thanks! Fascinating! So how about a similar tiny linux computer that serves Firewire data & commands between the Firewire device and the SD port? -- David W. Jones gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
