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SDL app for "WinCE/PPC/Windows Mobile" with CEgcc toolchain Mingw32ce

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[Saint]:
For what it's worth, I don't believe there is any such limit on the upper value of the size of an sdcard in Windows Mobile devices.

Such "limitations" are almost always the result of brain dead marketing.

It is incredibly rare to find devices that actually have an artificial (because it would be entirely artificial) limitation on how much storage it can address embedded in their firmware. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a few examples.

The whole "supports up to N GB sdcard" thing is usually just the highest capacity sdcard available at the time the product was launched. Unless they actually made an effort to specifically artificially limit the amount of storage these devices can address, it should be perfectly capable of addressing (even though such a card does not {and likely never will} exist) up to 2TB of storage, as the sd specification allows.


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gbl08ma:
I can tell things are not as straightforward and there's definitely a limit on many Windows Mobile devices. One of my phones doesn't support SDHC or higher due to driver incompatibility (the hardware itself allows for it, as was discovered when Linux was ported to the thing). Another only supports SDHC with some driver patching or registry hacking (can't remember), and then you need to "fix" the hack for each kind of SD card (i.e., when it is in high-capacity mode it won't read older non-HC cards). Others support SDHC but not SDXC, which effectively yields the 32 GB limit, the highest a SDHC card can have.

Still this is a minor issue (I'd much prefer a 32 GB flash to a 4 GB one as found on many iPods...) and I keep hoping that some day, we'll see Rockbox running on WM. I wouldn't mind porting it myself, but the issue appears to be more of a toolchain one than anything else (no good GCC is available for WM) and I don't have patience for this sort of problems. The batteries on my WM devices are also dying one by one...

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