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Codenames
Locations
- Orbis: a latin word that means World, Earth, Universe -> PlayStation 4
- Liverpool: a city in United Kingdom (Europe) -> Main SoC or APU
- Colwick: a town part of Nottingham in United Kingdom (Europe) -> System Controller
- Newcastle: a city in United Kingdom (Europe) -> Southbridge or EMC or EAP or Serial Flash or DDR3 RAM
- Aeolia: a few islands that belongs to Italia (Europe) -> Southbridge (first revision)
- Belize: a city in Belize (Central America) -> Southbridge (second and third revision)
- Baikal: a lake in Russia (Asia) -> Southbridge (fourth revision)
- CAVERN: a word that is famous in the myth of Platon's cavern -> PS4 Prototype motherboard
Related:
- Torus: a geometrical structure with similar properties as sphere (Orbis) -> Wifi / BT board second revision
- Trooper -> Wifi / BT board second revision maybe
Star Wars
- Luke: a character in Star Wars -> PS4 Camera
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 APU
- Jaguar: AMD codename -> APU
Sony Interactive Entetainment 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 Fat and Slim 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 firmware files are embedded in SLB2 files. These firmware files have fixed names: codenames. They usually consist of 32-bit hexadecimal numbers.
| Codename | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 40000001 | BLNK Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Syscon EEPROM. |
| 40000002 | BASE Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Syscon EEPROM. |
| 40000003 | SYST Syscon Firmware | SYSCON Firmware. Syscon EEPROM. |
| 40010001 | Syscon PTCH #1 | SYSCON Patch. Syscon EEPROM. |
| 40018001 | Syscon PTCH #1 Information | SYSCON Patch Information |
| 40010002 | Syscon PTCH #2 | SYSCON Patch. Syscon EEPROM. |
| 40018002 | Syscon PTCH #2 Information | SYSCON Patch Information |
| 40020001 | USB-SATA Bridge Firmware update | SATA Bridge Firmware |
| 40028001 | USB-SATA Bridge Firmware update Information | SATA Bridge Firmware Information |
| 40030001 | Communication Processor Firmware | Communication Processor Firmware |
| 40038001 | Communication Processor Firmware Information | Unsure if it exists. Need to look in a TOOL PUP. |
| 80000001 | Secure Loader (SAMU IPL) | APU. Serial Flash. |
| 80010001 | Secure Kernel | APU. Serial Flash. |
| 80010002 | Kernel | APU. x86 FreeBSD kernel. Serial Flash. |
| 80010006 | PUPMgr | APU. pup_mgr. Serial Flash. |
| 80010008 | AuthMgr | APU. auth_mgr. Serial Flash. |
| 80010009 | Individual Data Mgr | APU. individual_data_mgr. Serial Flash. |
| 8001000A | FSM Mgr | APU. manu_mode_mgr. Serial Flash. |
| 8001000B | KeyMgr | APU. key_mgr. Serial Flash. |
| 8001000C | AuthMgr + KeyMgr | APU. sm_service. Serial Flash. |
| C0000001 | emc_ipl | EMC Initial Program Loader. Serial Flash. |
| C0008001 | emc_ipl_info | EMC Initial Program Loader Information |
| C0010001 | eap_kbl | EAP Kernel Boot Loader. Serial Flash. |
| C0018001 | eap_kbl_info | EAP Kernel Boot Loader Information |
| C0020001 | torus_fw | Southbridge Wifi/BT Firmware (Torus, Trooper). Serial Flash. |
| C0028001 | torus_fw_info | Southbridge Wifi/BT Firmware Information |
| 401R | BD Drive 401R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 402R | BD Drive 402R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 403R | BD Drive 403R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 404R | BD Drive 404R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 405R | BD Drive 405R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 406R | BD Drive 406R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 408R | BD Drive 408R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 410R | BD Drive 410R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 412R | BD Drive 412R Firmware update | BD Drive |
| 420R | BD Drive 420R Firmware update | BD Drive |
Devices Codenames Table
| Codename | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| cd0 | contains 4XXR | |
| da0 | contains 4002XXXX | |
| da0x0.crypt | contains preinst img | |
| da0x1.crypt | contains preinst2 img | |
| da0x2 | contains eap_kernel | 16 MB usually called like /dev/sdX5 |
| da0x3.crypt | contains eap_vsh img | |
| da0x4b.crypt | contains system img | |
| da0x5b.crypt | contains system_ex img | |
| da0x6.crypt | contains old swap | |
| da0x6x0.crypt | contains new swap | |
| da0x6x1.crypt | contains kernel log | |
| da0x6x2.crypt | contains user log | |
| da0x8.crypt | contains app_tmp | |
| da0x9.crypt | contains system_data img | |
| da0x12.crypt | contains update img | |
| da0x13.crypt | contains user img | |
| da0x14.crypt | contains eap_user img | |
| da0x15.crypt | contains app_reserved | |
| da1 | usb device | |
| sc_fw_update0 | contains 4000XXXX/4001XXXX | |
| sflash0 | full Serial Flash | 32MB |
| sflash0s0 | Serial Flash segment 0 | 2MB |
| sflash0s1 | Serial Flash segment 1 | 30MB |
| sflash0s0x0 | contains blank/0xFF data | |
| sflash0s0x32, sflash0s0x32b | contains active/inactive C000XXXX | |
| sflash0s0x33 | contains C001XXXX | |
| sflash0s0x34 | contains C002XXXX | |
| sflash0s0x38 | contains Serial Flash NVS | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx1 | contains individual data | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx2b | contains 8000XXXX | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx3b | contains 8001XXXX | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx39 | contains ?BD HRL? | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx40 | contains blank/0xFF data | |
| sflash0s1.cryptx6 | contains VTRM |