Codenames

Codenames

Locations

• 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

• Luke: a character in Star Wars -> PS4 Camera
• Jedi -> PS4 DualShock 4 controller
• Trooper: Storm Trooper -> PS4 Wireless communication module second revision

Matrix

• Morpheus: a character in Matrix -> PSVR (PlayStation Virtual Reality)
• Neo: a character in Matrix -> PS4 Pro, PS4 Pro Motherboard

Nonsense - various

• 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 Entertainment Third Parties

• Kratos: the main character of the God Of War video game -> PS4 Arcade (maybe Dissidia Final Fantasy Demo PS4 is one)

Food

• 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

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

See Devices.