Can default startup procedures be removed? (i.e. lens check)

[Hydration]

Hello

I am new here so I apologize If I am posting incorrectly.

I am a software developer and I plan on doing some firmware modifications of my own.
I was wondering If it is possible to disable the lens check when turning on a canon bridge camera (or any non-interchangeable lens canon for that matter).

The reason for this is that I want to remove the build in lens and use my own vintage glass with a 3d printed mount. Before I go deep I was hoping anyone knowledgeable could inform me.

Thanks in advance

[Walter Schulz]

Canon's lineup of cams without interchangeable lenses is covered by our friends at CHDK.

[a1ex]

From my limited knowledge of PowerShot firmware, the lens communication is initiated from the main ARM CPU, so - at least in theory - it should be doable. You will have to reverse engineer Canon's assembly code and patch it somehow, and this step might be non-trivial.

I'd stay away from DIGIC 6 for this kind of modification, though. At least on DSLR, we couldn't find a way to patch ROM routines in Canon firmware (at the time of writing). Patching ROM contents currently works on DIGIC 2, 3, 4, 5 (via cache hacks), and also on 7 and 8 (by reconfiguring the MMU). Unless somebody at CHDK figured it out for D6 meanwhile