[PATCH v2 00/11] ARM: add support for Canon DIGIC chips and Canon PowerShot A1100 IS

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 29 06:20:45 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:15:19AM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> Changes since v1:
> 
>   * fix reset_cpu();
>   * add real Canon A1100 camera support.
> 
> DIGIC is Canon Inc.'s name for a family of SoC
> for digital cameras and camcorders.
> 
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIGIC for details.
> 
> There is no publicly available specification for
> DIGIC chips. All information about DIGIC chip
> internals is based on reverse engineering efforts
> made by CHDK (http://chdk.wikia.com) and
> Magic Lantern (http://www.magiclantern.fm) projects
> contributors.
> 
> Also this patch series adds initial support for Canon
> PowerShot A1100 IS compact camera (it is my only camera
> with connected UART interface). As the DIGIC-based cameras
> differences mostly are unsignificant (e.g. RAM-size,
> ROM type and size, GPIO usage) the other compact
> and DSLR cameras support can be easely added.
> 
> One can easely run barebox for Canon A1100 using QEMU version 2.0
> or newer.
> 
> This patchseries uses some patches already submitted to maillist:
> 
>    * clean barebox.zynq
>    * treewide: drop Doxygen stuff

Applied this series up to 9/11 since I'm quite unsure if it's allowed
to include a GPLv3+ tool into a GPLv2 project.
There are some ways out of this situation:

- Ask the author to relicense it under GPLv2+
- rewrite the tool
- Use it as external tool
- Convince me that it's allowed ;)

Sascha

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