G9 porting progress

jeff666

Hi there.

I'm porting CHDK to the G9. My model has firmware 1.00H but I will reproduce my progress for the other firmware-versions as well.

Tasks:

Get the cam started.
- start cam under chdk-control without any extensions
- create led-blinker-test-task
Progress: not done
GUI output.
- General output
- Histogramm
- Zebra mode
Progress: not done
hijack Keyboard handler (this includes USB-support)
Progress: not done
hijack shoot-task.
- control darkframe subtraction.
- implement raw-save: This might be unnecessary, since the G9 saves raw itself, but it should be simple thus I'll include it anyway.
Progress: not done
hijack movie-task.
Progress: not done
Include multipartition/boot from SDHC support.
Progress: not done
BASIC scripting.
Progress: not done
Lua scripting.
Progress: not done
Overrides.
- AV
- TV
- ISO
- Subject Distance
- Bracketing in cont' mode
Progress: not done
Image enhancement.
- Bad Pixel removal
- custom curves
Progress: not done

If I forgot anything, please comment.
This post will be updated as progress continues.

Next: prepare dev-environment for new device and multiple firmwares.

Cheers.

jeff666

It seems there are four different firmware versions for the G9 around.

1.00D
1.00F
1.00G
1.00H

I already had D and F; I dumped H from my own device and downloaded G just yet.
Since nobody has dumped a 1.00H before, I added it to the G9-wiki-page.

If someone has a G9 with a firmware that I'm not aware of, please report and I'll include it.

Cheers.

yowzah

thank you all for working on this project,

how long do you think it will realistically be before G9 users can use CHDK?

Behold

Im new here but eager to see this work. If there is any mundane or test work you would like done. I have a G Firmware camera.

I can program but not in C im a VB man and only very simple stuff. but willing to help anyway i can.

Antony

v3rtex

<removed> :😀

uvvv

I have test chdk for G9 (testing only 100G)... see in attach file...
work kbd.. not testing JogDial...
Work all menu in ALT mode in Play and Shot mode...
but not work shoot mode 🙁 or I dont know how chdk working in shoot mode 😀 ...
Now I am working with error in shot mode...
New result will be tomorrow...
I am sorry from my bad English 😀

trunk_g9.rar

910.48KB

Rekoil

Can someone please explain to me how to use that :$

bongo_bingo

hello all,

great work uvvv! finally chdk loads on the g9! I'm testing your build, reversi runs fine! sokoban not!
only few bugs to address, but the road is finally tracked!
I'm avaible to help!

bye

bongo_bingo

v3rtex

We probably won't need a G9 port anymore. I think I'll return my device and get a G10

....

In the worst case, the G9 will be available as a second cam for a while, so I guess going directly to the G10 is worth the shot. 😀

I know this is not the right place to start this discussion, but please don't name the g10 unless you are sure it doesn't have the same dust eating feature as the g7 and the g9.
The way in which the canon is facing this situation is truly annoying.

Please don't reply to this post in this thread, but open a new one in general chat if you like.

I posted here just to "don't forget", maybe it's time to start a class action to try to convince the canon to take the responsibility of the design errors made on a thus expensive cam.

Rekoil

Please bongo_bingo (or anyone else), how do I make CHDK boot on my camera! 🙁

uvvv

I have test build chdk for G9 (testing only 100G) with working JogDial... 😀
see in attach file...

in this build (since 0.5.4) for sokoban need file - CHDK/GAMES/SOKOBAN.LEV ...
this file you can take from attach file...
or you can load it from - /trunk/CHDK/GAMES - chdk - Trac

trunk_g9.rar

910.48KB

v3rtex

Please bongo_bingo (or anyone else), how do I make CHDK boot on my camera!

Rekoil, read "How do I get CHDK onto my camera's SD memory card?" at http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ

bitdivision

Hey uvvv,

Thanks so much for starting on this, looks like great work so far! I am trying to get your trunk to work on 1.00H, I copied all the files from 1.00G and changed the makefiles and added the firmware from the wiki for PRIMARY.BIN.
At first when I built it, it threw an error about the ND filter, commented out the code and think I sorted out the problem, will give details later when I get home. Then built successfully and I tried it out but the camera bricked.
I am new to this so there is probably something I didn't change for the new firmware, could you maybe have a look when you get a chance?

Thanks

Rekoil

v3rtex

Please bongo_bingo (or anyone else), how do I make CHDK boot on my camera!

Rekoil, read "How do I get CHDK onto my camera's SD memory card?" at http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ

I did that, but I can't find a PS.fir in the file that was uploaded, all I found was diskboot.bin 🙁

fe50

Rekoil
...I did that, but I can't find a PS.fir in the file that was uploaded, all I found was diskboot.bin 🙁

This is the only file you need !

FAQ: There's no_PS.FIR_file_in_the_CHDK_download_for_my_camera._What_do_I_do ?

Use Cardtricks, make your card bootable & copy the diskboot.bin to the cards root - that's all (use a card <= 4GB, formatted with FAT16)...

Rekoil

Can't use Cardtricks, mac user. Already tried cardtricks through virtual machine and it didn't work. Also tried the mac instructions for making a card bootable, that didnt work either. 🙁

EDIT: Got it to work using Cardtricks through Wine. Sokoban!

Behold

Ok i have downloaded the file in your post uvvv and its it loads fine.

Turning the mode for auto manual etc causes it to crash

And im unable to use the jog dial.

Im all set up with an enviroment now and keen to start help. is there any good place to be starting to look? Unfortunatly im new to chdk and have no idea what files to start with to aid movement on this. With a bit of help i may be able to help with some areas of input.

thanks

Antony

fe50

Rekoil
Can't use Cardtricks, mac user. Already tried cardtricks through virtual machine and it didn't work. Also tried the mac instructions for making a card bootable, that didnt work either. 🙁

Ahhh - Hi Steve, give me your apple ...

It's not so easy on a Mac, if the instructions you mentioned are this ones CHDK wikia: Bootable_SD_card#Mac, perhaps this page: Getting CHDK working on the Canon S5 IS from Mac OS X | B. Mann Consulting may help you (the S5 is also a DryOS-beased camera as the G9)...

...remember - your card
- must be <= 4GB,
- must have a single FAT16 partition,
- this partition must be marked as 'CHDK bootable' (with BOOTDISK at offset 40h in the cards boot sector), this is not the "normal" bootable-flag for hard discs...

Good luck !

v3rtex

Please guys, the topic is "G9 porting progress" so move the discussion about CHDK booting problems somewhere else.

Thanks. 😉

bitdivision

Hey,

A little more info on my problem.
I have attached my version of uvvv's trunk with the directories etc in it for 1.00h.
When I load it on my g9, LED_PW blinks for about half a sec. I had a look in main.c under loader and this is under a shutdown function?? does this mean anything.

On another note, when I build it using 1.00G instead I do not get the compilation error I received before and had to comment out. The error was:

../platform/g9/libplatform.a(shooting.o): In function `shooting_set_nd_filter_st
ate':
shooting.c🙁.text+0x133😎: undefined reference to `_PutInNdFilter'
shooting.c🙁.text+0x1344): undefined reference to `_PutOutNdFilter'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So I just commented out the contents of shooting_set_nd_filter_state.
I don't understand this happens with 1.00h and not 1.00g because they have exactly the same code????

Sorry if I am being naive, I only just started playing with this...

Thanks

trunk_g9.zip

999.46KB