Cory Papenfuss wrote: > 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 >
The 300D hack was essentially loading the 10D firmware, since they were pretty much identical from a electronic standpoint, the differences are all physical hardware. The 300D essentially was the 10D electronics shoved into a Rebel body with a few hacks (primarily buffer size reduction) -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
