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Regarding buying a 7D (and assuming you haven't bought it yet), here's an excellent article about buying 2nd hand:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/4701677448/how-to-inspect-a-used-canon-eos-7d

He even specifies which firmware versions you're looking for.

There in nothing specific you need to look for regarding Magic Lantern. If the 7D passes all your other tests then it will be ok for Magic Lantern (you might need to fiddle with the firmware, but that's all).

Enjoy!
Robert

Adding my vote!

To Marsu42:

Your Makefile.user has the same change mine has : GCC_VERSION=-4.7.4

Pelican's post says GCC_VERSION=4.6.4

How about one of those puzzles where you split a picture into 9 sections, randomize them and then have to rearrange them.

If it's still relevant : I fixed this exact build problem by upgrading to the 4.7.4 version.

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=2899.msg69446#msg69446

Speaking as someone who's just wrestled with Cygwin and compiling ML, I vote yes

IIRC, If the camera doesn't recognize the battery it won't let you load firmware.

It's not ML specific, I remember when firmware 2.x came out, there were people who couldn't upgrade because they didn't have a chipped battery.

I suppose it's so that the camera can check to see that you won't run out of battery halfway through.

However, once you've modified the camera to "boot from card" I guess it won't care whether the battery is chipped or not.

Robert

Hi,

I see that there are two copies of the 7D in the daily builds; 7D.203 and 7D_MASTER.203.

What's the difference between them? Which one should I work on if I want to contribute?

Thanks,
Robert

Just an update because the existing instructions left me with a couple of errors.

This is what I did for Windows 7 64bit

I've followed Pelican's directions (http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=2899.msg14021#msg14021) except that:

1. I used the latest version of gcc-arm-embedded 32 bit that I could find (https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+download) and installed it into $HOME/arm-toolchain474

2. I modified  magic-lantern/src/Makefile.src by adding edmac-memcpy.o

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ML_SRC_OBJS = \
boot-hack.o \
ico.o \
edmac.o \
menu.o \
edmac-memcpy.o \
debug.o \


3. I modified Makefile.user to this:

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CONFIG_TCC          = y
CONFIG_MEMCHECK     = n
CONFIG_MODULES      = y
GCC_VERSION=-4.7.4
ARM_PATH=~/arm-toolchain474
ARM_ABI=none-eabi
ARM_LIBC_A=~/arm-toolchain474/arm-none-eabi/lib/libc.a
CONFIG_PICOC = n
PYTHON=python2.6


Notice how I needed to add the - to the GCC version. Otherwise it wouldn't find the compiler.

Fingers crossed!

Hi,

I haven't been able to find "Focus Patterns" in ML.

Does anyone know if this has been implemented for the 7D?

Great news on the Alpha-2!

Thanks a lot

Myabe it's time to update this page though http://www.magiclantern.fm/newmodelsstatus ?