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Yes, this was in September 2020 according to my records. All I remember is that I could run the ROM dumper just fine, then I could run my firmware in QEMU, and then I just had to locate a bunch of function pointers to make it do anything useful. Worked in QEMU but that's where I got stuck - no way to run it on hardware.

I'll definitely keep this in mind and hit you up whenever I have a buncha hours to spare. :)

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That would have been only a little before a1ex left. Getting code running on real hardware is easy, maybe I'll talk to you in discord in a few months when you find this fabled free time we are all looking for ;)

The 4000D is an interesting cam, we've had a few people start ports then give up. It has a mix of old and new parts in the software. Canon used an old CPU / ASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Canon_EOS_digital_cam...

So it has hardware from 2008, but they did update the OS to a recent build. This is not what the ML code expects to find, so it's been a confusing test of our assumptions. Normally the OS stays in sync with the hardware changes, which means when we're reversing, it's hard to tell which changes are which.

That said, 4000D is probably a relatively easy port.

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