The JITs used to find a block by overwriting its first instruction with an "emuhack" holding
the offset into the code space, and replacement functions installed their own emuhack the same
way. Anything that read code (savestates, the debugger, memory dumps, cheats, the function
hasher, games reading their own code) had to translate them back.
Blocks now live in a block shadow: one u32 per guest instruction, indexed by the PC masked with
BLOCK_SHADOW_MASK (1GB on 64-bit, folding the kernel and uncached mirrors; 256MB on 32-bit, iOS
and Switch, where address space is short), with the low bits cleared so a misaligned PC can't
read across two entries. Only the ranges under memory views are committed, so a bad PC still
faults in the dispatcher, and the shadow is reserved before the memory map so it can't land in
a gap of the 4GB window. Entries hold full 32-bit offsets, lifting the 16MB limit. The
dispatchers on every backend, and the IR interpreter's loop, look blocks up there.
A hooked instruction without a compiled block gets the JIT's hook value in its entry: the offset
of the dispatcher's compile path (1 for the interpreters, the IR arena keeping that offset
empty), so dispatching there compiles a block, and the frontends substitute the hook. Compiling
replaces the entry with the block's, and destroying the block puts the hook value back. The hook
value is rewritten when the JIT changes or regenerates its dispatcher.
Hooks live in a map keyed by the masked address, and are dropped when the game overwrites the
hooked instruction, or when an icache invalidation finds the function's hash (immediates masked,
as when matching it) changed. Those checks run when queued invalidations are processed, since
cheats and the debugger queue them before writing. Installing and removing hooks invalidates
deferred, as it happens in HLE calls that can run inside a block. The cache instruction goes
through MIPSState, so it drops changed hooks too.
With clean memory, the save/clear/restore around savestates, memory reads and dumps goes away,
as do the source-range invalidations in the memcpy replacements, sceDmac and the cheats.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Helper thread stubs, fake syscall stubs and the module start trampoline go into memory that may
have held code (freed kernel memory, a reused thread stack), and the debugger memory views can
edit code. Invalidate what they write, which so far only happened by accident when the write hit
the first instruction of a JIT block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
6.60 and 6.61 crashed in vsh_module's alarm-task scan on a count nothing
initialized, and a data patch zeroed it. With the shell's modules started
in order, both reach the XMB, show icons and launch homebrew without it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kernel starts modules one by one, each module_start returning before
the next starts. We started them all as threads side by side, and
vsh_module's start ran before paf's. Its 12MB request for game_plugin's
surface pools then went to the 8.3MB heap we pre-filled scePaf's pool
slot with, failed, and game_plugin threw away every decoded ICON0 and
PIC1 (white tiles on 3.80-5.05, grey placeholders from 5.50).
heaparea1, vshbridge, paf, common_gui and common_util now start in order,
and vsh_module waits for the last. The kd/ drivers still start side by
side, since syscon's start blocks on its hardware interrupt. paf fills
its own pool slot now, so the pre-fill is gone. Icons show on every
version from 1.50 to 6.61, and homebrew launches on the same ones as
before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The VSH launches games through the VSH variants of LoadExecForKernel,
whose NIDs most firmware versions changed. Where HLE doesn't know the NID,
the firmware's own loadexec.prx ran instead, and the launch got nowhere,
so homebrew launched from the XMB only on firmware 3.73 and older, and
6.60/6.61.
Each variant is the same small wrapper, loadExecVSH(apiType, file, opt,
0x10000), so when loadexec.prx exports one we don't know, look at the API
type it loads into a0, and for Disc (0x120) and MS2 (0x141), overwrite it
with a call to our HLE implementation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instead of 6.61's offsets, look for the checks by their instructions,
each of which has to match exactly once. Checked against vshmain.prx from
every firmware version, 1.50 to 6.61:
- The DISC_ID check is there from 2.00 on.
- The DATA.PSP header check from 5.00 on, in two forms: 5.xx compares
the header bytes against ~PSP and ~SCE itself, and 6.30 on test a type
a helper worked out. 6.00 to 6.20 have both. For the byte check, the
"first byte isn't ~" branch is pointed at where a good header goes.
- 1.50 and 1.52 have neither, and run unsigned code anyway.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Picking homebrew in the XMB gave "The game cannot be started. The data
is corrupted." without ever calling LoadExec: vshmain.prx rejects a
PARAM.SFO without a valid DISC_ID, and a DATA.PSP that's a plain ELF
rather than ~PSP. NOP the three branches that do that, the same patches
ProCFW's vshctrl makes and JPCSP applies. They're for 6.61's build, and
are only applied if all three instructions are what we expect.
With it, Kosmodrones launches from the XMB, through the PSP boot logo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add DoCString() for standalone fixed-size strings, and
TerminateLoadedCString() for names inside structs that are loaded whole.
These all get used as C strings (GetName(), logs, the debugger), and are
always terminated when created. Module names are copied from the ELF with
strncpy, so terminate those on creation too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sceReg:made the registry writable in-memory (sceRegSetKeyValue/sceRegCreateKey overlay + merged cached lookups), which is what fixed the Chinese font. Fix#14032
sceKernelStartModule, sceKernelStopModule and the self-stop calls now
check their option first: with SDK 2.08 or later its size must be 0x14,
and attribute bits outside 0x00F06000 are an error.
The option's attribute is added to the module's thread attribute rather
than ignored (or, when stopping, replacing it), and the default attribute
is 0 rather than the module's own attribute. A nonzero mpidstack puts the
stack in that partition, which has to be user-accessible for a user
module and kernel-only for a kernel module.
A failed thread creation is now returned instead of asserting.
Hardware test: modules/startoptions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
modulemgr only defaults a module_start/module_stop thread's stack to 0x40000
for user modules. Kernel modules get 0x1000. We gave every
module 0x40000, which mostly cost kernel memory when booting the VSH.
User modules, and so games, are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On hardware a load costs an open and a read of the file, plus about 1ms
and 30us per KB of loader work (pspautotests threads/scheduling/callcosts),
with the caller waiting throughout. It now charges sceIoOpen's and
sceIoRead's estimates for the file plus that, instead of a flat 500us.
Also notes why sceKernelLoadModuleByID fails from a game's own fd on ms0:
or host0: on hardware, which we don't emulate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
From pspautotests threads/scheduling/syscallkinds:
- sceKernelUnloadModule takes ~400us that better threads can preempt
and worse ones don't get in on, so it uses the busy delay rather than
a wait.
- A successful sceKernelVolatileMemTryLock takes under 100us. It ate
500000 cycles as a hack for Crash Tag Team Racing, which has since
moved to (and no longer needs) the DrawSyncEatCycles compat flag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sceMpeg's AVC resource flag, whether the VSH is running, sceReg's handle
counter, sceNet's pending apctl events and product code block, and the
save dialog's copy of the original request (without which the first
Update after a load reloaded the request and lost its results).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The function list is from before the load, where other code (an overlay
module) may have been. Hashing it again from the loaded memory keeps the
hooks to code that actually matches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tekken 6 never reaches gameplay with the real mpeg.prx: it plays its intro
movie, returns to the title screen, starts loading a demo match and loads
forever. With the sceMpeg HLE it plays fine.
The game unloads its video libraries before the level load and expects the
memory back. It gets most of it - scePsmf and scePsmfPlayer do go away - but
mpeg.prx stays resident, 33KB of it, sitting in the middle of the region the
loader then asks for:
08c64000 - 09e24000 18.6MB taken UserSbrk
09e24000 - 09ed4000 720KB free
09ed4000 - 09edc300 33.5KB taken ELF/sceMpeg_library
09edc300 - 09f44000 425KB free
09f44000 - 09f4c000 32KB taken UtilityModule/302_av_atrac3plus
0x09f44000 - 0x09e24000 is 0x120000, which is exactly the allocation that
fails. Without mpeg.prx in the way that span is one free block and the level
loads.
sceUtility notifies the per-library hooks with state 1 when a utility module is
loaded and -1 when it is unloaded. The hooks that swap in a firmware module
only ever handled the load, so nothing ever took them back out. That affects
sceMpeg, sceMp3, sceMp4 and sceAtrac alike; Tekken is just the game whose
memory budget is tight enough to notice.
The unload has to take out what we put in and nothing else, so the loaded ids
are remembered rather than looked up by name: a game like Death Jr ships its
own mpeg.prx and loads it itself, and freeing that would be freeing the game's
memory. Verified that Death Jr still decodes its 1033 frames with our loader
never touching its module.
Savestates from before this have no record of what was swapped in, so they keep
the old behaviour of leaving the modules loaded rather than risk freeing
something the game owns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doing this was written once, for sceMp4, remembering the two UIDs it had
loaded in a static. That static was the only thing stopping a second copy
being loaded on top of the first, and it didn't survive a savestate: resuming
in a fresh process left it at zero while the restored module list already had
the modules in it. Ask the module list instead, which needs no state of its
own and is right after a savestate load and across games.
With the mechanism shared, sceMp3 and sceAtrac get it too. libmp3.prx and
libatrac3plus.prx each import nothing but the kernel and sceAudiocodec, so
both run against what we already have. The sceAtrac checkbox previously led
to an error log and a debug assert saying it wouldn't work, with a note that
we could go and find the file - which is what this does.
This is only ever the path for a game that ships no copy of the library. One
that does loads it directly and never asks sceUtility for it.
Also:
- a module we're really loading no longer reserves its stand-in block as
well. That block only stands in for memory we aren't otherwise taking, so
reserving both charges the game twice, at the top of user memory where
thread stacks come from.
- the module loads at the bottom of the user partition. fromTop is for a
module injected before the game's executable is placed; by the time a game
calls sceUtility nothing moves either way, and the firmware's utility.prx
allocates AV module memory as PSP_SMEM_Low.
- NotifyLoadStatusAtrac read the raw setting rather than the effective
flags, so it could fire for a flag that wasn't in effect.
- the missing-firmware case now says so on screen, naming the library and
pointing at installing a firmware, rather than only logging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same three functions, one more NID each. Those two shells started no plugins at
all and sat on a black screen; both reach an interactive XMB now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-model naming only starts around 3.50. Older dumps have plain
memlmd.prx and loadexec.prx, name the wlan firmware after the chip revision
(wlanfirm_magpie.prx became wlanfirm_01g.prx), and don't have lowio.prx at all
until about 3.52 - so every one of those was reported as a failed load on
2.00 through 3.30. Try the emulated model, the model in the path, then those
older spellings, and say plainly when the firmware simply doesn't ship one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sceKernelLoadModuleVSH, sceKernelGetModel and sceImposeSetStatus each appear
under a different NID in 3.95/4.05, 6.00/6.20 and 6.31/6.39. Without the load
one those shells started no plugins at all and sat on a black screen.
Identified the same way as the 5.xx set: for each firmware, the modulemgr export
with sceKernelLoadModuleVSH's callee set, and the vshbridge export whose body is
the user-level check 6.61 wraps sceKernelGetModel in - which is also the only
SysMemForKernel import those shells actually call.
3.95 and 4.05 now reach an interactive XMB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sceKernelLoadModuleVSH, sceKernelGetModel, and four of sceImpose_driver's calls
already have implementations; 5.xx just asks for them under different NIDs, so
the 5.50 shell got nothing back. Each one was identified by disassembling that
firmware's own module and comparing the body against 6.61's, where the same
function is exported under a name - the pairs are instruction-for-instruction
identical apart from context-struct offsets.
GetModel was the one that mattered most: unresolved, vshbridge handed the shell
a garbage model number, and it went looking for PSP-3000 resources on a dump
that has none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three from a read-through of the sceMp4 firmware-module path:
Clearing the module UIDs when the game says it's done with the MP4 module
didn't unload anything - it only meant the next load brought in a second copy
of libmp4.prx and mp4msv.prx, some 220KB at the top of user memory each time.
Keep them for the boot instead; __UtilityInit clears them per game, which is
the point at which they really are gone.
The flag test read g_Config directly, so it ignored the very fallback
CheckDisableHLEAvailability computes when the dump is missing - it would go and
try to load modules that aren't there while import resolution had correctly
stayed on HLE. It also ignored a boundary restored from a savestate.
sceKernelGetModuleGPByAddress checked one byte of the pointer it writes four to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backwards from 5.01, one release at a time, against all 39 versions that ship
on a disc plus the download-only 6.61. Nothing here is an offset - it's almost
entirely Sony renumbering the kernel *_driver NIDs, which sends an import we
mean to HLE into the real firmware module instead.
Four more NIDs each for sceRtc_driver/sceRtcSetAlarmTick and
sceHprm_driver/sceHprmReadLatch, covering 1.50 up. The rtc one is what parked
every thread on a SceSysconSync semaphore; the hprm one runs once a frame, so
unresolved it was most of the boot log. Also sceImposeGetParam/sceImposeChanges
(1.50 - 2.xx) and sceKernelLoadModuleVSH (1.x, which is how the shell loads its
own plugins - unresolved it got module id 0 and StartModule failed).
sceRtcIsAlarmed had to be implemented too; it returns 0, as in JPCSP. As a null
entry it returned LIBRARY_NOT_YET_LINKED, and the 3.0x-3.5x VSH read that as
"ask the hardware instead" and went back to blocking on syscon.
Two structural findings:
- Up to 4.05, scePaf's heap allocator is a separate heaparea1.prx that paf
imports as scePafHeaparea. Load it when it's there. Its pool pointer needs
the same pre-fill paf's does, at gp - 0x7FCC rather than gp - 0x7E88.
- 1.50's vshmain.prx declares no module attributes at all - PSP_MODULE_VSH_MODE
only appears from 1.52 - so the whole VSH bootstrap was being skipped. Accept
the module name too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
6.60 ships byte-identical paf.prx and vshmain.prx to 6.61 - all 6338 + 669
functions disassemble the same - and boots to an interactive XMB, so let
FirmwareVersionSupportsVSH accept it. That matters because no UMD carries 6.61
(it was download-only), so 6.60 is the best a disc-installed firmware can be.
The two module patches were hardcoded offsets from the module base applied to
any module of the right name, which is quietly wrong on any other build:
- The scePaf heap arena slot moves with every build (0x18CCD8 on 6.00 through
0x18D728 on 6.60/6.61) but sits at gp - 0x7E88 in all of them, so find it
that way. On its own this turns an immediate SIGSEGV inside scePaf into a
clean stall on 6.00 through 6.39 - they still don't reach an XMB, they get
stuck in sceVshBridge_Driver instead.
- The vsh_module alarm-category offset has no such anchor, so check the word
there is the one the patch was derived from. On 6.20 and 6.00 it's ASCII
string data - the unconditional write was corrupting a string table.
Also resolve the per-model kernel drivers (memlmd, loadexec, wlanfirm) to the
model being emulated. They were asked for as _01g, which a firmware unpacked
for a single model doesn't have - and our own updater unpack defaults to 02g.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The no-code-sections path validates textStart..textEnd, then derives its
actual scan boundaries from modinfo->libent/libstub without checking those
land inside it. flash0:/kd/sysmem.prx and loadcore.prx from a real firmware
dump put them tens of megabytes past the end of the text, so the scan walked
off into unmapped memory - a debug assert in Read_Instruction, and a pointless
134MB scan in release builds.
For a well-formed module every boundary is already inside the range, so this
is a no-op there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Not every disc image is a whole number of 2048-byte sectors - tools that build
pre-patched ISOs write images that stop partway through their last one, with a
file legitimately ending there. Two things then conspired to lose that tail.
FileBlockDevice::GetNumBlocks() rounds down, so the partial sector isn't
counted, and the file size clamp in ISOFileSystem measured what the image holds
in whole blocks. A file running to the last byte of such an image got clamped
short - by up to a sector - before anything read it.
FileBlockDevice::ReadBlock() then returned false for a short read of that
sector, and ISOFileSystem::ReadFile substitutes an all-zero sector when a read
fails, so even the bytes that were there came back as zeroes.
Measure the clamp in bytes via GetUncompressedSize() instead of blocks, and
treat a short read at the end of the image as a success with the rest of the
sector zeroed. GetUncompressedSize() defaults to the block-based value and is
only overridden by FileBlockDevice, so nothing else changes behaviour.
Also report why a module was rejected. "Failed to load module" named the file
and nothing else, and the truncation check logged only the byte count, which
points at the executable when the real cause is that the loader was handed
fewer bytes than the file has. ElfReader now keeps the reason for a failed
LoadInto, __KernelLoadELFFromPtr puts it in the error string that reaches the
user, and both messages say which header table overran and by how much.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The flash0 PRXes we swap in for our HLE took the lowest free block, which sits
right where a game's own EBOOT wants to go. That pushes the game up, shifting
every address in it - invalidating cheats and RetroAchievements - and for a game
whose EBOOT has to load at a fixed low address it fails outright: Tekken 6 wants
0x08804018 and got "block taken", so it didn't boot at all.
Give KernelLoadModule a fromTop flag and use it for the modules we inject. The
game keeps its normal load address and the firmware sits out of the way at the
top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GgACRqkQNpfJQ4fjwyoEup
A .sprx from one of these packages is an NPDRM "\0PSPEDAT" container: a
0x90-byte header, then an ordinary ~PSP PRX. The loader only ever saw the
EDAT magic and gave up with SCE_KERNEL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_PRX_TYPE.
Step over the header, then derive the key the PRX inside is really
encrypted against: sceNpDrmGetFixedKey() over the content ID, XOR in the
licensee key the game handed us through sceNpDrmSetLicenseeKey(), then AES
under a module key that had to be added. Both halves of that were already
lying around unused - sceNpDrmGetFixedKey() had no callers at all, and the
licensee key was being kept and never read.
The rest of it is a fixed XOR that the PRX header's decrypt_mode selects
rather than its tag, so it's applied on the mode the way JPCSP does it and
the tag table is left alone - tag 0x407810F0 carries no seed of its own
there either, so ours was never wrong about it. pspDecryptType5() already
had a slot for both XORs; no new decryption logic was needed.
Decryption is only half of it: these modules are KL4E-compressed rather
than gzipped, so they also need Core/Util/KL4E.cpp, which is already there
for the firmware modules that use the same compression. With both halves
Shiren 4 Plus loads its one big .sprx and runs. God Eater 2 needed one
further fix that isn't in this commit - the type-B relocation bug in
ElfReader::LoadRelocations2, issue #8075 - and then plays.
docs/pkg_notes.md has the container layout and the key derivation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MP4 libraries turn out to be the easiest place to hand a game Sony's own
code: libmp4.prx needs only sceAudiocodecInit and sceAudiocodecDecode from us
plus ordinary kernel calls, and mp4msv.prx - where the 41 functions libmp4
leans on live - imports nothing at all. So with a firmware dump present the
pair can be loaded for real and left to decode through our sceAudiocodec.
Adds DisableHLEFlags::sceMp4, which loads and starts both modules when the
game asks sceUtility for the MP4 module, and a --disable-hle bitmask so a
headless run can ask for this without a config file.
Two things had to be fixed to make it work at all:
- ModuleMgrForUser 0xD2FBC957 was unimplemented, and libmp4 calls it to get
the gp of each callback it is handed. Implemented as
sceKernelGetModuleGPByAddress.
- Headless forced every module to HLE unconditionally, which silently undid
the flag, and it did so before ApplyToConfig() had even parsed it.
Tested with Speedball 2 - Evolution, which uses sceMp4 for its music: the game
goes from 255645 calls into our stubs and 39 unresolved imports, to zero of
each and 1943 AAC frames decoded through sceAudiocodec.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
KL4E is Sony's second compression scheme for ~PSP modules, alongside gzip:
LZ77 tokens where every bit is arithmetic-coded, structurally close to LZMA.
PPSSPP could detect it but not decode it, so any module packed with it failed
to load at all - the loader reached the gzip path and bailed there.
Which scheme a compressed module uses is now decided by the payload's own
magic rather than assuming gzip. On a 6.61 flash0 dump this takes the kd/
modules that load from 126 to 129 of 129; libmp3.prx, libaac.prx and
libmp4.prx were the ones affected, and libmp3.prx decompresses to exactly the
elf_size its PRX header declares.
Two bounds problems in the format are fixed rather than reproduced: the match
copy is unchecked against the output buffer on real hardware, so a crafted
stream can write up to 255 bytes past it, and a long enough distance code
indexes copyDistProbs out of range. Input reads are bounded too - the format
carries no length and trusts the stream to terminate itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
KernelImportModuleFuncs walks data straight out of the module being loaded, and
validated addresses without validating extents:
- The variable relocation list was scanned until it happened to hit a zero word,
with no bound at all - an unterminated list runs off the end of guest memory.
Now bounded by what's actually mapped from that address.
- nidData and varData were checked with IsValidAddress, which covers one word,
and then indexed numFuncs (up to 65535) and numVars times. Check the whole
array instead.
- The entry walk could read a final PspLibStubEntry that starts just short of
libstubend and extends past it.
All of these need a corrupt or crafted module, not a normal game.
ModuleMgrForKernel/0xD5DDAB1F is how the VSH loads its own plugins. The XMB's
interface lives in flash0:/vsh/module/*_plugin.prx and vshmain pulls those in
through this kernel call rather than the user-mode sceKernelLoadModule, so the
existing note that vshmain never imports sceKernelLoadModule was true but
incomplete - it imports this instead, and it was unresolved.
The consequence was quiet: vshmain got no module id back and then called
sceKernelStartModule with id 0, which failed with UNKNOWN_MODULE. None of the
plugins that populate the XMB ever ran. The scene still had its containers,
which is why every frame set up render state per node and drew nothing inside
them - the "6x render-state-setup, 0 draws" symptom this investigation has been
chasing.
Also implements 0xD86DD11B sceKernelSearchModuleByName, the other unresolved
ModuleMgrForKernel import.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
For some reason, a pointer used to allocate the heap for scePaf is not
initialized. This hacks aroung that.
Additionally zero out the specific 4-byte "category 1 alarm count" address in vsh_module.
This gets us much further.
Extends LoadAndStartVshKernelModules() to load the 11 real kd/*.prx
kernel drivers for --vsh (dmacman, systimer, memlmd_01g,
loadexec_01g, lowio, idstorage, syscon, rtc, wlan, wlanfirm_01g, utility),
ahead of the existing 4 VSH-specific modules.
Only active when g_runningVSH, no effect on normal game boot.
Improve implementations of sceKernelSm1ReferOperations and sceKernelIsIntrContext.
Add some more MMIO stubs (GPIO, SYSCON).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
(cherry picked from commit 7f3168b7df85e47438900016c9ee7d7ef01a0a28)
Adds SceKernelLoadExecVSHParam and fills in the rest of LoadExecForKernel's
NIDs: real implementations for sceKernelExitVSHVSH/Kernel
(mirrors sceKernelExitGame) and sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan (loads
an exec from an in-RAM buffer instead of a file, plus UNIMPL stubs.
sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan needed __KernelLoadExec split into a
file-reading front end and a shared __KernelLoadExecFromPtr back end
that both it and the new buffer-based path call into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSNaZnHCjmryS3ziVN9gZU
(cherry picked from commit 4adbedec9e2e3221113c9e5ad00b248bba1153e1)
Load and start VSH's kernel modules before booting vshmain.prx
A few flash0 modules (vshbridge.prx, paf.prx, common_gui.prx,
common_util.prx) should run for real once we know we're
actually booting the VSH rather than a game, since our fakes are unlikely
to be good substitutes for the genuine thing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSNaZnHCjmryS3ziVN9gZU
log.channel.set is meant for temporary, session-only diagnostic
tweaks (e.g. quieting a noisy channel while investigating something
over the WebSocket debugger). It was going through the same
SetLogLevel/SetEnabled calls the UI settings use, so a normal app
exit would persist whatever channels/levels the debugger last left
set, silently overwriting the user's real saved log preferences for
future runs - discovered when a later session's default logging
looked "off" for no apparent reason.
LogManager now tracks whether the debugger has touched channel
config this run and skips SaveConfig() entirely if so, leaving
whatever's already on disk untouched.
