Can CHDK be used on a Canon PowerShot SX540 HS with no official build?
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I checked for CHDK support for my Canon PowerShot SX540 HS, but ACID reports that there are no official builds available for this camera. Is there any way to get CHDK working anyway, or is support impossible unless someone creates a new port?
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Unless you're a developer with experience in reverse engineering firmware and prepared to put a lot of time and effort in, you can't use CHDK on your camera. As you can see from the CHDK developers page, the SX540 HS is colour coded black, which means:
Black - neither original firmware nor firmware dump is available
or in other words, it's not even possible to begin development of CHDK on the SX540 HS at the moment.
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Not realistically, unless a developer first creates a port for that camera.
If CHDK has no official build for the PowerShot SX540 HS, you generally cannot just install a version meant for another model. CHDK ports are camera- and firmware-specific.
For the SX540 HS, the developer status indicates that even the original firmware or a firmware dump is not currently available, so development cannot really begin yet. In other words, there is no existing CHDK version you can use on it right now.
What you can do is help enable future support by providing a firmware dump to CHDK developers. The CHDK wiki documents methods such as firmware dumping tools and scripts. Once a dump is available, an experienced reverse-engineering developer could potentially start work on a port.
So the short answer is: no, not unless someone develops CHDK support for this exact camera first.
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