On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, P. J. Alling wrote:
> I actually thought Cory had suggested this, so I apologize again.
> However this seems like a possible Firmware hack. There was a cottage
> industry in hacked firmware for the D300/Digital Rebel to put back
> functions that were in Canons higher level offerings that were left out
> in the Rebel. I wonder if someone will be willing to risk permanently
> disabling their *ist-D to try something like that.
>
I briefly looked into this awhile back. The firmware is a rather
odd embedded RTOS beast:
6Softune REALOS/FR is Realtime OS for FR Family, based on micro-ITRON
COPYRIGHT(C) FUJITSU
LIMITED 1994-1999
... can be found within the firmware binary. I'm not real saavy on
hacking at that level, but it'd probalby be pretty ugly to do. The D300
has a larger userbase and thus larger hacker userbase. They were also
doing fairly simple things... just enabling features that were basically
already there. The hack we're talking about would be quite a bit to code
up in a reverse-engineered way.
-Cory
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