Canon 40D

[jplxpto]

Good to hear from jplxpto after long long time. You are only person working on this port and all our eyes are on you.....May God bless you with health and you can work on this port.

Can you please tell us how much more work would be required to complete this port. Last time I think you were working with menus. hope to hear good news from you and we all pray from your health......amen

Hi,

This week I've been reading about the latest news.

I updated the source code to the 40D but the project did not compile ...
I've started to make some changes but still could not test anything.

The menus have worked in 40D.
Before getting out of the project, I was making the discovery of the main properties.
The selection of the focus points have worked correctly.
I also able to change the aperture and shutter speed.

Some overlays also have work in play mode.
I still can not display the overlays in live view mode.
I still could not find the addresses of HDVRAM. I hope to do that soon.

[ilguercio]

I hope your health problems are not serious.
It's nice to see you are back to work with us!

[jplxpto]

I hope your health problems are not serious.
It's nice to see you are back to work with us!

I'm fine... Thank you...

BR

[imme]

Goodluck........

[ariznaf]

Well come back.
Glad to hear you aee ok and tour health problemas are gone.

Great to ser you are back to the project toó.
As soon as you have a operational alpha versión i will try it in my camera.

[jplxpto]

After a few months away. ML works again on my 40D.

I hope soon to have time to fix the loading of modules.
At this time no module is loaded.
I also saw that there are some problems in the menus.
The fonts seem to me unclear.

[jplxpto]

Well come back.
Glad to hear you aee ok and tour health problemas are gone.

Great to ser you are back to the project toó.
As soon as you have a operational alpha versión i will try it in my camera.

Thanks for everything but there is still much work to be done.

[nexiabass]

if you could add iso 12800 - i would donate some cash for your work

[jplxpto]

if you could add iso 12800 - i would donate some cash for your work

I apologize to disappoint you, but all systems have their physical limits (hardware) and the software does not perform miracles ...
I do not think that's possible.
If I could do that, probably the noise would be so high that no one would want to use.

Still ... this fantastic community needs help to survive.
There are some very active members who deserve to be properly rewarded, even if it's with new equipment, ... new challenges, ...
and recognition of their work ... some of them work hard for this project ... day after day ...

Briefly, a help is always welcome

BR

[fotosi]

Hello jplxpto, I can and wish to help if you just give me a few step-by-steps how to.
What do I need of the equipment to start working and helping in this project?

[imme]

JPL........its good you are back on track. I know port will take time to complete and also it needs your spare time and good health. We are waiting and wish you goodluck.

[rufustfirefly]

Is there currently a more "modern" version of the firmware extract/build instructions to create a FIR file for the 40D than the one located here : http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=1452.msg3856#msg3856 ?

Some of the tools listed in that don't exist in the repository anymore, so I'm getting the distinct impression that the build process has changed slightly.

Thanks!

[rufustfirefly]

I built a 40D "snapshot" build (but without the FIR loader, as I haven't nailed down a procedure for putting one together yet), if anyone is interested. To "bump up" interest, there's also 5D3 and 50D builds there.

https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/magic-lantern/downloads

[jplxpto]

I built a 40D "snapshot" build (but without the FIR loader, as I haven't nailed down a procedure for putting one together yet), if anyone is interested. To "bump up" interest, there's also 5D3 and 50D builds there.

https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/magic-lantern/downloads

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7955.new#new

[imme]

JPL any update?

[rufustfirefly]

I've got a 40D body laying around -- I'd be perfectly willing to dump the firmware, search for function calls, etc; I just have little to no expertise in doing any of that, and the Magic Lantern wiki seems perilously out of date. Could anyone point me to a somewhat more up to date walkthrough of either a) using the extracted firmware components to analyse or b) dumping active ROM to do the same -- and any postings, articles, or pages about digging for the locations of specific calls?

I know it seems like a tall order, but I'd love to help if anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm using a Linux machine, but I have a Windows VM handy (as well as a copy of WINE) if it's needed.

[imme]

I've got a 40D body laying around -- I'd be perfectly willing to dump the firmware, search for function calls, etc; I just have little to no expertise in doing any of that, and the Magic Lantern wiki seems perilously out of date. Could anyone point me to a somewhat more up to date walkthrough of either a) using the extracted firmware components to analyse or b) dumping active ROM to do the same -- and any postings, articles, or pages about digging for the locations of specific calls?

I know it seems like a tall order, but I'd love to help if anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm using a Linux machine, but I have a Windows VM handy (as well as a copy of WINE) if it's needed.

rufustfirefly. I am not a developer but if you read this thread from start you will get lots of information. JPL, Nanomad and alex had in detail discussions related to development and 40d porting. 

[StefanKeller.AC]

I built a 40D "snapshot" build (but without the FIR loader, as I haven't nailed down a procedure for putting one together yet), if anyone is interested. To "bump up" interest, there's also 5D3 and 50D builds there.

https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/magic-lantern/downloads

loading that 40d00111-ML.2013-08-30-007bb9a0574d.fir with the files from ML-40D.2013-08-30.53fbc6b53da5.zip on the card
doesnt work, only the upper display is on, battery has to be taken out...
how shall it work?

[rufustfirefly]

loading that 40d00111-ML.2013-08-30-007bb9a0574d.fir with the files from ML-40D.2013-08-30.53fbc6b53da5.zip on the card
doesnt work, only the upper display is on, battery has to be taken out...
how shall it work?

I'm having some issues getting development rolling on the 40D, primarily because I've been unable to extract an unencrypted version of the 1.1.1 firmware (as I had mentioned earlier in the thread). This has left me unable to find the rest of the function locations, so getting this port working, at least at the 1.1.1 firmware revision, isn't going to happen -- pending being able to get an unencrypted copy of the firmware to work with.

Alternately, I can try to move to using 1.0.5 or 1.0.8, which have both had their encryption keys reverse engineered. I hate backing out versions of firmware, but if it's the only way I can proceed, I may go that way.

[scaricame]

News???

[rufustfirefly]

I have built a set of dumpers, which should dump out the active firmware. If someone wants to try to load one or the other up on their 40D running v1.1.1, we should be able to get an unencrypted dump of the firmware.

It's all based off of the previous 1.0.5 and 1.0.8 work, so mileage may vary.

https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/magic-lantern/downloads/108D1.fir
https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/magic-lantern/downloads/108D2.fir

There's a disclaimer that this could do something awful -- but one of them should just dump a file to your card (after a flurry of activity).

If anyone wants to check my work, it's all on bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/rufustfirefly/40d108-dumper

[imme]

rufustfirefly can you please add a little tutorial as how can I added it to 40d and CF card. sorry but I am totally new to these firmwares stuff. 

[rufustfirefly]

rufustfirefly can you please add a little tutorial as how can I added it to 40d and CF card. sorry but I am totally new to these firmwares stuff.

The trick is to dump the .FIR file onto your CF card (presumably using a CF card reader), then use the "Update Firmware" menu option to attempt to sideload the dumper code. It won't actually upgrade your firmware, but rather attempt to run the custom code which should, in theory, spin the CF card for a bit and dump out a file containing the loaded firmware.

It could also do bad things, which it shouldn't do. If, for some reason, it locks up completely and hasn't done anything within 30 seconds or so, you might want to pull the battery.

[pixelk]

On a 1.1.1 40D with full battery :

After a few seconds of "loading firmware update"

- 108D1.fir : White on yellow "Update file error. Please check the memory card and reload the battery and try again."
- 108D2.fir : White on yellow "Update file error. Please check the memory card and reload the battery and try again."

Both needed a battery remove, and the 40D still works fine after that.

40d00111-ML.2013-08-30-007bb9a0574d.fir : screen turns black, DSLR works apart from the fact that it doesn't recognize the CF carf anymore. Needed a battery remove to restore proper function.

[anderskvist]

40d00111-ML.2013-08-30-007bb9a0574d.fir : screen turns black, DSLR works apart from the fact that it doesn't recognize the CF carf anymore. Needed a battery remove to restore proper function.

I see more or less the same (also with 1.1.1) - except the camera won't capture, but focus works...

/Anders