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MLInstall Manual

USB

This will commands on your camera via PTP/USB.

Get device info

Prints firmware version, model, serial number, etc.

Enable boot disk

Allows the camera to run custom code from SD/CF card, if BOOTDISK
is written into the SD card. See Write card boot flags.

Disable boot disk

Disables the boot disk, so that the camera won’t look for
autoexec.bin. You might also want to Destroy card boot flags.

Custom Event Procedures

Mlinstall has a built-in event procedure command parser. Event procedures (also known as EvProcs)
are special commands that can be sent to the camera via USB. These commands can be used to change
certain settings or perform certain tests.
Mlinstall parses strings (between double quotes) and numbers (base 10 and hex). Here’s a few quick
examples:

FooBar "Hello, World"
foo_bar 123 0x123

Generally the ML developers will provide a firmware file to do this.

SD/CF Card

This will write some bytes into the SD/CF card that tells the
camera to load and execute an autoexec.bin file.

The utility will write to the first SD/CF card it finds
named “EOS_DIGITAL”. This is the default Canon card name.

See the Magic Lantern wiki page for more info.

!! Warning !!
This code will write to your SD card! It’s a good idea
to back up all data and format the card in camera first.

Write card boot flags

This will write both EOS_DEVELOP and BOOTDISK.

Destroy card boot flags

This will write an underscore to the first character of the
EOS_DEVELOP and BOOTDISK flags. This is useful when you want
to uninstall Magic Lantern without reformatting the card.

Make card scriptable

Writes the SCRIPT flag, allowing the camera to run Canon BASIC.

Make card un-scriptable

Same procedure as Destroy card boot flags.

FAQ

No PTP/USB device found

TODO: install libusb filter