A2200 IS porting thread

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #90 on: 06 / December / 2011, 08:23:47 »

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Quote from: Nilinhim on 05 / December / 2011, 19:19:25

..... Not camera specific, but could the "-Wl" option be added to the line 100 in chdk/core/Makefile?
Change from
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$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ --start-group $^ $(LDLIBS) --end-group $(LDFLAGS) $(LDOPTS)to
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$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -Wl,--start-group $^ $(LDLIBS) -Wl,--end-group $(LDFLAGS) $(LDOPTS)Newer versions of gcc are a bit more anal about passing arguments to the linker, at least in my experience here.

Thanks ! Tested this mod on a vanilla r1457 (Windows 7 / CHDK-Shell)
It's compatible with all cross compilers currently supplied with CHDK-Shell: GCC 3.4.6 / 4.4.0 / 4.5.1
(note that these all use - and are compiled with - GCC 3.4.5 as native compiler, on Windows MinGW/MSYS)

What's even better: with this mod an experimental kit with GCC 3.4.5 / 4.6.2 (native/cross)
now also appears to work (read: compiles cleanly + survives quick function test on ixus220_elph300hs)
Haven't checked sig/stubs regeneration yet, but maybe updating to 4.6.2 fixes your problems too ?

wim

PS Switching from 4.5.1 to 4.6.2 reduced binary size by ~3.2 kB for me

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #91 on: 06 / December / 2011, 12:24:01 »

Quote from: whim on 06 / December / 2011, 08:23:47

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Thanks ! Tested this mod on a vanilla r1457 (Windows 7 / CHDK-Shell)
It's compatible with all cross compilers currently supplied with CHDK-Shell: GCC 3.4.6 / 4.4.0 / 4.5.1
(note that these all use - and are compiled with - GCC 3.4.5 as native compiler, on Windows MinGW/MSYS)
...

I'm glad if the info helped!

I haven't tried with a different version of gcc yet, but I have traced the problem to revision 1448 (my build setup works to revision 1447). Specifically to this addition in finsig_dryos.c (line 3666):

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    for (k = 0; func_list2[k].name; k++){

        count = 0;
        curr_name = func_list2[k].name;

  k = find_matches2(&fw, k);

        //if ((fw.dryos_ver >= find_min_ver(curr_name)) && (fw.dryos_ver <= find_max_ver(curr_name)))
  // print_results(curr_name);
    }

The loop itself wants to run 4 times in my case, but crashes in the third iteration of calling find_matches2(&fw, k). Specifically, right after entering in this loop inside the find_matches2 function (line 2321:)

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 for (i = 0; string_sigs[i].ev_name != 0 && !found_ev; i++)
 {
  if (strcmp(curr_name, string_sigs[i].name) == 0)
  {
   tried_ev = 1;
   if (find_strsig(fw, &string_sigs[i], k))
   {
    found_ev = 1;
    break;
   }
  }
 }

The third time does not pass the the first if statement, which suggest comparing outside the scope of the string_sigs array. Either the functions gets called to many times or for loop parameters aren't sane.

But I don't know how signature searching works, so I can't say.

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #92 on: 06 / December / 2011, 12:57:47 »

Quote from: Nilinhim on 06 / December / 2011, 12:24:01

.......
But I don't know how signature searching works, so I can't say

Neither do I (never managed to port a cam) but I'm pretty sure everything in /tools
gets compiled with the native, not the cross compiler.
So, are both your GCC's 4.6.0 ? On Linux ?

cheers,

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #93 on: 06 / December / 2011, 14:27:01 »

Quote from: whim on 06 / December / 2011, 12:57:47

Quote from: Nilinhim on 06 / December / 2011, 12:24:01
.......
But I don't know how signature searching works, so I can't say

Neither do I (never managed to port a cam) but I'm pretty sure everything in /tools
gets compiled with the native, not the cross compiler.
So, are both your GCC's 4.6.0 ? On Linux ?

cheers,

wim

Do you know where I can download a pre-compiled version of GCC 4.6.2 for Windows that will work with CHDK, so I can test this?

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sx130is (1.01d & 1.01f)
ixus310hs (1.00a & 1.01a)
sx40hs (1.00d, 1.00g & 1.00i)
g1x (1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #94 on: 06 / December / 2011, 14:48:14 »

Quote from: philmoz on 06 / December / 2011, 14:27:01

Do you know where I can download a pre-compiled version of GCC 4.6.2 for Windows that will work with CHDK, so I can test this?

Phil.

Not yet, but working on uploading right now - [edit] Ok, done + scanned OK @ Jotti :

kit with GCC 3.4.5 / 4.6.2 (native/cross): [Edit3: link removed]
CRC-32: 33BFBCAF
MD5: 1875D833FA966E9B6C09A05C8C5383CF
SHA1: 4AF97AAFC6C7BEC3F06111721C3574F9E0BDD3AD

[edit2: in case others want to test this: don't forget that a mini-patch to the CHDK source code is
needed for this to work, see Nilinhim's post or if you prefer a patch file see attachment]

cheers,

wim

PS Only tested with included gmake.exe (which is Gnu make 3.77 compiled for msys)

[edit3: link and attachment removed: resulting CHDK binaries produced crashes]

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #95 on: 06 / December / 2011, 16:15:16 »

Quote from: whim on 06 / December / 2011, 12:57:47

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Neither do I (never managed to port a cam) but I'm pretty sure everything in /tools
gets compiled with the native, not the cross compiler.
So, are both your GCC's 4.6.0 ? On Linux ?
...

Ah, that makes more sense that /tools is compiled with native compiler (*derp* moment here

).

Some more information that might help:

Linux, yes; 64 bit; native gcc 4.5.2; cross gcc 4.6.0. So the newer version of cross compiler shouldn't effect signature finding.

I tested by commenting out the call to find_matches2(&fw, k) and the firmware compiles and runs ok on the camera fine.

Also, browsing trough finsig_dryos.c I found that func_list2 is declared with only two elements:

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FuncsList   func_list2[] =
{
    { "ResetZoomLens", 0, 0 },
    { "ResetFocusLens", 0, 0 },
};

So, shouldn't that only have to make run the loop only twice? And disabling this part of signature finding would only ignore these two functions?

As for reference ports compiling, I realised I don't have their firmware dumps in the build, so the signature finding gets skipped (another *herp* moment).

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #96 on: 06 / December / 2011, 16:52:07 »

Quote from: Nilinhim on 06 / December / 2011, 16:15:16

Also, browsing trough finsig_dryos.c I found that func_list2 is declared with only two elements:
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FuncsList func_list2[] = { { "ResetZoomLens", 0, 0 }, { "ResetFocusLens", 0, 0 }, };

A huge 'doh!' moment for me then

Just add another line to func_list2 with { 0, 0, 0 } as the entry.
This will terminate the list for the loop.

Will update SVN tonight.

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sx130is (1.01d & 1.01f)
ixus310hs (1.00a & 1.01a)
sx40hs (1.00d, 1.00g & 1.00i)
g1x (1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #97 on: 06 / December / 2011, 17:16:15 »

Quote from: philmoz on 06 / December / 2011, 16:52:07

Just add another line to func_list2 with { 0, 0, 0 } as the entry.
This will terminate the list for the loop.

Works like a charm, thanks!

Now just a cosmetic bug or two to figure out (like how to make the menus in rec and play mode the same color) and the A2200 100b firmware should be BETA quality!

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #98 on: 06 / December / 2011, 17:37:51 »

Quote from: Nilinhim on 06 / December / 2011, 17:16:15

Now just a cosmetic bug or two to figure out (like how to make the menus in rec and play mode the same color) and the A2200 100b firmware should be BETA quality!

Colors in CHDK are a pain - with recent cameras having less useful colors in the palette, as well as different palettes in each mode (some cameras having up to 16 different palettes).

I implemented a solution for the G12/SX30/SX40/IXUS310 that updates unused entries in the palette with CHDK specific colors. Given the A2200 is from the same era it may be possible to implement this. You need to find some memory addresses for the palette buffer and active palette index though.

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sx30is (1.00c, 1.00h, 1.00l, 1.00n & 1.00p)
g12 (1.00c, 1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)
sx130is (1.01d & 1.01f)
ixus310hs (1.00a & 1.01a)
sx40hs (1.00d, 1.00g & 1.00i)
g1x (1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)

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Re: A2200 IS porting thread

« Reply #99 on: 06 / December / 2011, 18:01:31 »

Quote from: philmoz on 06 / December / 2011, 17:37:51

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Colors in CHDK are a pain - with recent cameras having less useful colors in the palette, as well as different palettes in each mode (some cameras having up to 16 different palettes).

I implemented a solution for the G12/SX30/SX40/IXUS310 that updates unused entries in the palette with CHDK specific colors. Given the A2200 is from the same era it may be possible to implement this. You need to find some memory addresses for the palette buffer and active palette index though.
...

I'll give it a shot. Somehow I managed to figure it out this far. Big thanks of course to everybody for all the help on the forums!

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