PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread - page 11 - General Discussion and Assistance

emlyn

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #100 on: 17 / August / 2010, 15:25:30 »

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I can confirm that it works with the Ixus 130! It wasn't working before because I had stupidly written the SCRIPT string to the device representing the partition instead of the whole disk.
I first tried the LED blinker script, and it worked, so I then tried reyalp's dumper script (the second improved version), and got a dump!
The file is here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wgjbef
A quick diff shows that it is not identical to cyrustam's dump, but I haven't looked how it differs.

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dumper

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #101 on: 17 / August / 2010, 15:55:46 »

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I had stupidly written the SCRIPT string to the device representing the partition instead of the whole disk.

What's the difference? I might have made the same mistake on SX210...

EDIT: Grammar

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Ameglin

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #102 on: 17 / August / 2010, 15:59:07 »

Yep, dumps are different because cyrustam's firmware version is 1.00A and emlyn's is 1.00C

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emlyn

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #103 on: 17 / August / 2010, 16:24:05 »

Quote from: dumper on 17 / August / 2010, 15:55:46

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I had stupidly written the SCRIPT string to the device representing the partition instead of the whole disk.

What's the difference? I might have made the same mistake on SX210...

EDIT: Grammar

The string must be a fixed offset from the beginning of the disk, in the first sector. The partition is only part of the whole disk, starting at some offset from the beginning, after the boot sector and partition table.
On OS X, two devices appear when I insert the SD card, /dev/disk1 and /dev/disk1s1, disk1 represents the whole disk, and disk1s1 is the first partition.

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reyalp

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« Reply #104 on: 17 / August / 2010, 16:44:21 »

Quote from: Ameglin on 17 / August / 2010, 15:59:07

Yep, dumps are different because cyrustam's firmware version is 1.00A and emlyn's is 1.00C

A full dump will also be different for each camera, because the firmware uses some areas of "ROM" for crash dumps, settings etc.

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Ameglin

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #105 on: 17 / August / 2010, 16:52:19 »

Quote from: reyalp on 17 / August / 2010, 16:44:21

A full dump will also be different for each camera, because the firmware uses some areas of "ROM" for crash dumps, settings etc.

This dumps differs also in first 4mb half and fw version strings are also different

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emlyn

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Re: PowerShot SX210 IS - Porting Thread

« Reply #106 on: 17 / August / 2010, 17:45:55 »

Quote from: reyalp on 17 / August / 2010, 02:11:23

I've added flavor #4 to dancingbits, please report whether it makes bootable diskboots for any of these cameras.

It works with the Ixus 130!
I've only tried a loop from 0xc0220000 to 0xc022f000 writing 0x46 - the front LED and the flash both flash and then the camera switches off. I guess I must be hitting something that makes it power off because it doesn't crash, I can just press the power button again and it repeats.
I'll play around some more tomorrow and try to work out the LED addresses.

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reyalp

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« Reply #107 on: 17 / August / 2010, 18:05:31 »

Quote from: Ameglin on 17 / August / 2010, 16:52:19

This dumps differs also in first 4mb half and fw version strings are also different

Right, not disputing that they are different versions. Don't have any reason to doubt that.

I'm just saying, as a general piece of information for anyone reading, that that full dumps from cameras with the same model/firmware version are not be expected to be identical.

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