it *almost* seems like Panasonic are trying to give us the resources to reverse-engineer the LX3... add something like CHDK to the camera which is begging for it, but maybe (for commercial/marketing reasons) they cannot release themselves. Maybe simply because providing adequate documentation, technical support, and warranty, for an extended-feature-set firmware would be too expensive for the bean counters.
Anyway, the fact is we have three updates for the same camera (quite rare for the same camera to get so many updates). Can we use these multiple files to help us compare similarities/differences and start to tinker with it.
Someone mentioned that the files didn't seem to be encrypted or compressed, and other people mentioned something about an IDA.
At the risk of looking foolish, could someone elaborate a bit more on what methodology is generally used to analyse/disassemble/modify a firmware?
Thanks
Elia