Background[]
Canon's firmware update files for the Powershot series cameras are encoded by the manufacturer, the camera rejects unencoded files or files with a wrong encoding. To start the CHDK binary with Canon's firmware update mechanism, the file must be encoded with the correct keys. The automated build process of the Autobuild Server knows the required settings and keys and delivers correct encoded CHDK binaries (ps.fi2 files).
- To create your own CHDK ps.fi2 files (e.g. with the CHDK-Shell), the OPT_FI2 option in /buildconf.inc must be turned on and the file /platform/fi2.inc must hold the keys.
- The keys are not hosted in the SVN, read more about it in this thread: http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php/topic,2995.0.html
- latest (2015-08-09, by srsa_4c) fi2 encode/decoder tools package including source: http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=2995.msg113041#msg113041
- another fi2 decoder in Python (2020) : https://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=2995.msg144437#msg144437
About the keys[]
The keys can be extracted from a full firmware dump file when the starting offset is known.
To get the keys for a camera, the following things are needed:
- the fi2 encoding key set (d3, d3enc, d4, d4a, d4b)
- a full, clean reference firmware dump file
- the offset where the key starts in the reference firmware dump
- The keys are always 16 bytes long, starting from the offset listed below, written without any delimiter like this sample section:
ifeq ($(KEYSYS), d3) FI2KEY=112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFFGG FI2IV =112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFFGG endif
Offset table[]
Developers - pls. fill in the information here...
Camera | Encoding | Reference FW Dump | Offset FI2KEY | Offset FI2IV |
g12 | d4b | G12-100G | 0x7E36AC | 0x495FE8 |
G9 | d3 | G9-100F | 0x7E31F0 | 0x3154D0 |
S100 | d4c | S100-101A | 0xFF3B28 | 0x63AF20 |
S110 | d4c | S110-101B | 0xFF3CD0 | 0x934D88 |
S110 | d4c | S110-102B | 0xFF3CD0 | 0x934610 |
S110 | d4c | S110-103A | 0xFF3CD0 | 0x9345F8 |
SD4000 | d4a | SD4000-100D | 0x7E366C | 0x405130 |
SX210 | d4a | SX210-100C | 0x7E3570 | 0x41522C |
SX30 | d4b | SX30-100H | 0x7E3680 |
0x475204 |
SX40 | d4c | SX40-100F | 0xFF3B48 | 0x61A4FC |
SX50 | d4c | SX50-100C | 0xFF3C7C | 0x71CA90 |
SX220 | d4c | SX220-100A | 0xFF3610 |
0x49B4CC |
SX230 | d4c | SX230-100C | 0xFF3610 |
0x4A6674 |
SX510HS | d4e | SX510HS-101A | 0xFF39BC |
0x68A0E4 |
IXUS500 / ELPH520 | d4c | ELPH520-101a | 0xFF3CE0 |
0x629F2C |
ELPH140 | d4f | IXUS150_ELPH140-100c | 0x2744 | 0x492B74 |
IXUS160 | d4g | IXUS160_ELPH160-100a | 0x296C |
0x4BE1AC |
SX530HS | d4h | SX530-100c | 0x44A4 |
0x81876C |
G5 X | d5 | G5X-101d | 0x4010 | 0xc8fdcd |
m100 | d4k | m100-100a | 0x19ec0 | |
m5, m6 | d7 | m6-100f | 0x19900 | |
G7X II | d4i | G7X2-101a | 0x18b20 | 0xe74828 |
M6 II, G5x II | FIR v4 fir4 | |||
G7X III | FIR v5 fir5 |