Originally posted by bobbotron Very interesting! Man, that's weird to think that a whole OS would boot up when you turn the camera on... I mean I get this is technically what always happens, but my experience with linux is something that's running a lot of services.
Super neat.
Embedded Linux is fairly common*, though it is probably a bit premature to suggest that the camera's firmware in general is Linux-based or even exposed at any level to running modified or side-car code
ala Magic Lantern.
Still though, this discovery is very interesting indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_embedded_systems
Steve
* The Android operating system is based on Linux kernal. Note the busybox archive to get a clue as to the flavor of the embed and how it is being used. It is possible that it the presence of this tarball is the reason for the extra effort for license disclosure. The folk at BusyBox are famously litigious.
Last edited by stevebrot; 03-15-2019 at 09:50 AM.