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NOR typically refers to the NOR flash chip the application processor boots from. The baseband also uses a NOR flash.
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'''NOR''' typically refers to the NOR flash chip the application processor boots from. The baseband also uses a NOR flash. (See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory Wikipedia's article about flash memory] for background on NOR flash in general.)
   
 
==How to Access==
 
==How to Access==
This can be accessed using a patched iBoot or a kernel hack. It can possibly be dumped using /dev/kmem
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This can be accessed using a patched [[iBoot (Bootloader)|iBoot]] or a [[kernel]] hack. It can possibly be dumped using /dev/kmem
   
 
==Memory Map==
 
==Memory Map==
hope I did this right heh
 
   
 
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<td width=50%><center>[[NOR (NVRAM)|NVRAM]] Section</center></td>
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<td width=50%><center>[[NOR (NVRAM)|NVRAM]] Section (Note: This copy is the one iBoot uses)</center></td>
 
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==Hardware==
 
==Hardware==
*iPhone -- some CFI compliant parallel nor
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* [[M68AP|iPhone]] -- some CFI compliant parallel NOR
*iPhone 3G -- 1MB SPI NOR flash
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* [[N82AP|iPhone 3G]] -- 1MB SPI NOR flash
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* [[N18AP|iPod touch (3rd generation)]] and beyond -- The NOR is replaced with a dedicated partition of [[NAND]]

Latest revision as of 09:46, 26 March 2017

NOR typically refers to the NOR flash chip the application processor boots from. The baseband also uses a NOR flash. (See Wikipedia's article about flash memory for background on NOR flash in general.)

How to Access

This can be accessed using a patched iBoot or a kernel hack. It can possibly be dumped using /dev/kmem

Memory Map

Offset
Description
0x0
Configuration Data

0x0: "2GMI" fourcc
0x4: Block Size (0x40)
0x8: Images Section Location Offset
0xC: Images Section Location (In blocks)
0x10: Images Section Length

0x30: Checksum of this config data
0x4000
SysCfg Section
0x8000
Images Section
0xFC000
NVRAM Section (Note: This copy is the one iBoot uses)
0xFE000
NVRAM Section (copy)

Hardware