Updating Bluray Drive Firmware on Linux

Introduction

• No use actually but just for the sake of scientific research :)

Current BD FW Version

Using Storage Manager service get_version:

sudo ./ps3dm sm get_version
00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00

Using SC Manager service get_region_data:

sudo ps3dm scm get_region_data 8 | hexdump -C
00000000  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |...P............|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000030

Or reading it from BD drive istelf, see http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/BD_Drive_Reverse_Engineering#Get_Version.

BD Drive Type

• Use SCSI Inquiry to fetch BD drive identification string.

sudo sg_inq /dev/sr0

• PUP file contains several BD update packages.
• Update manager matches BD drive type against h_id from update package header.
• h_id is at offset 0x8 (8 bytes) in the update package header.
• E.g. h_id from BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_306R.pkg is 0x0000000000000007.

Identification string	Type	Flag
SONY EmerFlashROM	0x2100000000000001	0
SONY PS-EMBOOT 300R	0x2100000000000001	0
SONY BDRW AQUAM(BDIT)	0x1100000000000001	0
SONY PS-SYSTEM 300R	0x1100000000000001	0
SONY PS-SYSTEM V300	0x1100000000000001	0
SCEI EMER-FLASH-8	0x2200000000000002	0
SONY PS-EMBOOT 301R	0x2200000000000002	0
SONY PS-SYSTEM 301R	0x1200000000000002	0
SONY PS-EMBOOT 302R	0x2200000000000003	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 302R	0x1200000000000003	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 303R	0x2200000000000004	0
SONY PS-SYSTEM 303R	0x1200000000000004	0
SONY PS-EMBOOT 304R	0x2200000000000005	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 304R	0x1200000000000005	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 306R	0x2200000000000007	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 306R	0x1200000000000007	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 308R	0x2200000000000008	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 308R	0x1200000000000008	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 310R	0x2200000000000009	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 310R	0x1200000000000009	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 312R	0x220000000000000A	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 312R	0x120000000000000A	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 314R	0x220000000000000B	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 314R	0x120000000000000B	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 316R	0x220000000000000C	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 316R	0x120000000000000C	1
SONY PS-EMBOOT 318R	0x220000000000000D	1
SONY PS-SYSTEM 318R	0x120000000000000D	1

BD drive type and FW type check:

if ((type & 0x00FFFFFFFFFFFFFF) == h_id)
   FW is OK
else
   FW is NOT OK
fi

Sending BD Firmware to BD Drive

• BD update package is first decrypted and then sent to BD drive.
• BD buffer 0 is used to send BD firmware to BD drive.
• The BD firmware is sent in chunks of size 0x8000 bytes with SCSI command WRITE BUFFER mode 7.

See my bd_update_fw tool for PS3 Linux.

http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/bd-tools

Test

• Tested with my PS3 slim and OtherOS++.
• It should work on PC too. You can update your BD drive on PC but first you need to authenticate it with bd_get_version.
• Downgrading works too. I tested it myself and downgraded from 3.50 to 3.40 and back again.
• Use ps3dm sm get_version or bd_get_version to verify that the new version was installed successfully.

Valid firmware:

sudo ./bd_update_fw -v -f ~/ofw355/BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_306R.bin/content 
firmware length 786432
firmware h_id 0
=== INQUIRY (0x12) ===
vendor id SONY    
product id PS-SYSTEM   306R
=== START STOP (0x1b) ===
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 0 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 8000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 10000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 18000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 20000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 28000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 30000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 38000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 40000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 48000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 50000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 58000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 60000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 68000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 70000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 78000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 80000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 88000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 90000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 98000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset a0000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset a8000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset b0000 length 8000 ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset b8000 length 8000 ===
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20407 (because of invalid command issued. ignore it)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 20401 (unknown)
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
req sense 23a00 (success)

Invalid firmware:

sudo ./bd_update_fw -v -f ~/ofw355/BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_306R.bin/info1   
firmware length 64
firmware h_id 0
=== INQUIRY (0x12) ===
vendor id SONY    
product id PS-SYSTEM   306R
=== START STOP (0x1b) ===
=== TEST UNIT READY (0x00) ===
=== WRITE BUFFER (0x3b): offset 0 length 40 ===
WRITE BUFFER failed: req sense 52600 (invalid firmware combination or hash error)