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Codenames[edit | edit source]
Locations[edit | edit source]
- Orbis: a latin word that means World, Earth, Universe -> PlayStation 4
- Thebe: a moon of Jupiter, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe -> related to StarSha, AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) is a procedure library developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), used to perform the Platform Initialization (PI) on mainboards using their AMD64 architecture. As part of the BIOS of such mainboards, AGESA is responsible for the initialization of the CPU cores, chipset, main memory, and the HyperTransport controller.
- Liverpool: a city in United Kingdom (Europe) -> PS4 GPU Part of APU
- Colwick: a town part of Nottingham in United Kingdom (Europe) -> PS4 System Controller
- Newcastle: a city in United Kingdom (Europe) -> PS4 Southbridge (almost sure) or EMC or EAP or Serial Flash or DDR3 RAM
- Aeolia: a few islands that belongs to Italia (Europe) -> PS4 Southbridge (first revision)
- Belize: a city in Belize (Central America) -> PS4 Southbridge (second and third revision)
- Baikal: a lake in Russia (Asia) -> PS4 Southbridge (fourth revision)
- Cavern: a nightclub in Liverpool famous for being the birth place of the Beatles music band -> PS4 DevKit motherboard
Related:
- Torus: a geometrical structure with similar properties as sphere (Orbis) -> PS4 Wireless communication module first revision
Star Wars[edit | edit source]
- Luke: a character in Star Wars -> PS4 Camera
- Jedi -> PS4 DualShock 4 controller
- Trooper: Storm Trooper -> PS4 Wireless communication module second revision
Matrix[edit | edit source]
- Morpheus: a character in Matrix -> PSVR (PlayStation Virtual Reality)
- Neo: a character in Matrix -> PS4 Pro, PS4 Pro Motherboard
Nonsense - various[edit | edit source]
- StarSha (maybe AMD codename) -> ASIC (Main SoC) or GDDR5 RAM or PS4 Fat and Slim motherboard (SAx-xxx)
- Jaguar (AMD codename) -> Ps4 CPU Part of APU
Sony Interactive Entetainment Third Parties[edit | edit source]
- Kratos: the main character of the God Of War video game -> PS4 Arcade (maybe Dissidia Final Fantasy Demo PS4 is one)
Food[edit | edit source]
- Syrup -> PS4 Prototype motherboard
- Onion, Onion+ -> PS4 bus connecting the GDDR5 DRAM controller to the northbridge and the northbridge to the GPU L2 cache and GPU blocks
- Garlic -> PS4 bus connecting the GDDR5 DRAM controller to the GPU L2, Color Buffer (CB) and Depth Buffer (DB) caches
Update Package Codenames Table[edit | edit source]
Most PS4 firmware update files are embedded in SLB2 files. These update files have fixed names: codenames. They usually consist of 32-bit hexadecimal numbers.
| Codename | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 40000001 | BLNK Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Installed to Syscon ROM. |
| 40000002 | BASE Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Installed to Syscon ROM. |
| 40000003 | SYST Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Installed to Syscon ROM. |
| 40010001 | Syscon PTCH #1 | SYSCON Patch. Installed to Syscon ROM. |
| 40018001 | Syscon PTCH #1 Information | SYSCON Patch Information |
| 40010002 | Syscon PTCH #2 | SYSCON Patch. Installed to Syscon ROM. |
| 40018002 | Syscon PTCH #2 Information | SYSCON Patch Information |
| 40020001 | USB-SATA Bridge Firmware update | SATA Bridge Firmware. Installed to Sata Bridge Flash |
| 40028001 | USB-SATA Bridge Firmware update Information | SATA Bridge Firmware Information |
| 40030001 | Communication Processor Firmware | Communication Processor Firmware. Installed to CP eMMC. |
| 40038001 | Communication Processor Firmware Information | Communication Processor Firmware Information |
| 80000001 | Secure Loader | APU. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010001 | Secure Kernel | APU. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010002 | Kernel | APU. x86 FreeBSD kernel. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010006 | PUPMgr | APU. pup_mgr. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010007 | ??? | Unknown, exists on proto GEN1 devkit firmwares. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010008 | AuthMgr | APU. auth_mgr. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 80010009 | Individual Data Mgr | APU. individual_data_mgr. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 8001000A | FSM Mgr | APU. manu_mode_mgr. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 8001000B | KeyMgr | APU. key_mgr. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| 8001000C | AuthMgr + KeyMgr | APU. sm_service. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| C0000001 | emc_ipl | EMC Initial Program Loader. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| C0008001 | emc_ipl_info | EMC Initial Program Loader Information |
| C0010001 | eap_kbl | EAP Kernel Boot Loader. Installed to Serial Flash. |
| C0018001 | eap_kbl_info | EAP Kernel Boot Loader Information |
| C0020001 | torus_fw | Wireless Communication module Firmware (Torus, Trooper). Installed to Serial Flash. |
| C0028001 | torus_fw_info | Wireless Communication module Firmware Information |
| 401R | BD Drive 401R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 402R | BD Drive 402R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 403R | BD Drive 403R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 404R | BD Drive 404R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? |
| 405R | BD Drive 405R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? |
| 406R | BD Drive 406R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 407R | BD Drive 407R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 408R | BD Drive 408R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 409R | BD Drive 409R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 410R | BD Drive 410R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 411R | BD Drive 411R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 412R | BD Drive 412R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 413R | BD Drive 413R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
| 420R | BD Drive 420R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Testkit/Retail Only) |
| 421R | BD Drive 421R Firmware update | BD Drive. Installed to BD-ROM? (Devkit Only) |
Devices Codenames Table[edit | edit source]
| Codename | Description | Notes | XREFs |
|---|---|---|---|
| cd0 | contains 4XXR | 80010002, https://pastebin.com/zP8EZFrW | |
| da0 | contains 4002XXXX | 80010002, https://pastebin.com/BxqFjFts | |
| da0x0.crypt | contains preinst img | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x1.crypt | contains preinst2 img | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x2 | contains eap_kernel | 16 MB. Usually named like /dev/sdX5. | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self |
| da0x3.crypt | contains eap_vsh img | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x4b.crypt | contains system img | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self (mini-syscore.elf and safemode.elf only 4) | |
| da0x5b.crypt | contains system_ex img | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self (mini-syscore.elf included 5) | |
| da0x6.crypt | contains old swap | ||
| da0x6x0.crypt | contains new swap | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, SceSysCore.elf | |
| da0x6x1.crypt | contains kernel log | 80010002 | |
| da0x6x2.crypt | contains user log | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf | |
| da0x8.crypt | contains app_tmp | safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf | |
| da0x9.crypt | contains system_data img | mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceSysCore.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x12.crypt | contains update img | mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x13.crypt | contains user img | mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x14.crypt | contains eap_user img | mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| da0x15.crypt | contains app_reserved | safemode.elf, libkernel_sys.sprx, SceShellCore.elf | |
| da1 | usb device | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, libSceWebKit2.sprx, libSceWebKit2Secure.sprx, mscorlib.dll.sprx, System.Core.dll.sprx, NPXS20001 app.exe.sprx, orbis_swu.self | |
| pup_update0 | contains PUP | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| sc_fw_update0 | contains 4000XXXX/4001XXXX | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| sflash0 | Entire Serial Flash | 32MB (0x2000000) | |
| sflash0s0 | Serial Flash segment 0 | 2MB (0x200000) | |
| sflash0s1 | Serial Flash segment 1 | 30MB (0x1E00000) | |
| sflash0s0x0 | contains blank/0xFF data | 192kB (0x30000) | SceSysCore.elf |
| sflash0s0x32, sflash0s0x32b | contains active/inactive southbridge emc (0xC000XXXX) | 384kB (0x60000) | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self |
| sflash0s0x33 | contains southbridge eap (C001XXXX) | 512kB (0x80000) | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self |
| sflash0s0x34 | contains Serial Flash NVS Non_Volatile_Storage | 48kB (0xC000) | |
| sflash0s0x38 | contains wifi firmware (C002XXXX) | 512kB (0x80000) | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self |
| sflash0s1.cryptx1 | contains individual data/idstorage | 80010002, SceShellCore.elf | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx2, sflash0s1.cryptx2b | contains active/inactive Secure Loader (8000XXXX) | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx3, sflash0s1.cryptx3b | contains active/inactive CoreOS (Secure Kernel, Kernel, Secure Modules) (8001XXXX) | 80010002, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self, BdmvPlayerCore.elf , BdvdPlayerCore.elf | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx6 | contains Virtual TRM | ||
| sflash0s1.cryptx39 | contains bd revocation list | 80010002, BdmvPlayerCore.elf , BdvdPlayerCore.elf | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx40 | contains blank/0xFF data | 80010002, mini-syscore.elf, safemode.elf, SceShellCore.elf, orbis_swu.self |
