Non Volatile Storage

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Short for NVS, holds some information about the console, including console unique identifiers, tokens, flags, and registry flags, as well as some semi-permanent ones.

Bank # Block # Start Offset in /dev/sflash0s0x34 Start Offset in Sflash Size Notes
0 0 0 0x1C4000 0x2000 Size decrease since PS4, previous size was 0x3000, now it's 0x2000
0 1 0x2000 0x1C6000 0x1000
0 2 0x3000 0x1C7000 0x800 console data region
0 3 0x3800 0x1C7800 0x800 all ffs
0 4 0x4000 0x1C8000 0x3000 tokens and flags region
1 0 0x7000 0x1CB000 0x3000 tokens and flags region (backup)
1 1 0xA000 0x1CE000 0x1000

Mapping of the detailed area (NVS service)

Bank # Block # Start Offset Start Offset in Sflash Size Notes
1 0 0xC30 0x1CBC30 8 Firmware Version ??? (little endian)