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Has any progress been made on other DIGIC 4+ cameras yet to try and stir up the pot on the 1300D?

Hate to see this languish, especially when the 4000D is coming, which, while not ideal (no external mic), could help low-budget film makers (e.g. students) who could really benefit from ML.

[a1ex's reply from April 9, 2018]

Well I'm glad to help...but in terms of coding I dont know anything so if you could tell me the steps I should follow to test the software I'll be gratefull

You don't need to know how to code. Look at a1ex's reply from April 9, 2018. He already told you the steps. At the bottom he listed links for you to follow on:

• QEMU (the emulation software used for testing) installation instructions for:
  
  
  
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Ubuntu
• How to run Magic Lantern in QEMU
• The development and reverse engineering guide for ML in QEMU
• What needs to be done next

Focus on steps 1, 2, and 4 to start. Document anything that doesn't seem to work right (keep a journal/logbook) by describing what you did and what isn't working correctly, then report it back in this thread. Step 3 seems to require more understanding of code.

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Oh.. that means we/re pretty far away from ML on T6 if reverse engeneering isn/t ready yet.

See below:

On the contrary - it can be already tested and debugged in QEMU!

When all else fails... read previous posts

For the impatient: QEMU guide, RE guide, installation video for Ubuntu, for Mac, guide for Windows and... next steps.

This thread has a lot of good information if you read the previous posts. I don't have the free time to do a lot of testing right now, but if you do, and want to contribute to ML's progress, give it a shot. It doesn't sound like it's too far off, and I suspect a lot of the hurdles here will also help with the 2000D/T7 and 4000D/T100 (since they're also on DIGIC 4+.) Who knows, maybe it'll even help with DIGIC 6 and above!

I am ready to test any version of ML on my EOS T6 even though its buggy.

PS: Isn;t T5 similar to the T6 coding?

My understanding from following this forum post is that the DIGIC 4+ processor in the EOS-1300D/Rebel T6 (and forthcoming 2000D/T7 and 4000D/T100) is mostly a DIGIC 4, with some DIGIC 5 and 6 improvements. So it's not a straight shot from the 1200D/T5 (which used a DIGIC 4 and not a 4+), but it's not completely unfamiliar territory either.