La célèbre boîte à outils de bootloader pour Nintendo Switch, hekate, revient avec sa version 6.4.0, accompagnée de l’interface graphique Nyx v1.8.0. Au programme : compatibilité avec le dernier firmware, améliorations majeures du partitionnement, optimisations et une longue liste de correctifs.
Le développeur CTCaer vient de publier hekate v6.4.0 et Nyx v1.8.0, deux mises à jour solides qui apportent une compatibilité totale avec le firmware 21.0.0 de la console, mais aussi une longue liste d’optimisations techniques. L’écosystème hekate, devenu la référence pour le boot, l’emuMMC et la gestion avancée des partitions, renforce une fois de plus sa position centrale.
Changelog Hekate 6.4.0 :
Cette version intègre plusieurs ajustements internes destinés à renforcer la robustesse du bootloader :
- nouvelle option “Load Nyx” dans l’interface TUI, pratique lorsque la carte SD est insérée tardivement ;
- sanitisation des carveouts mémoire pour les versions HOS plus anciennes ;
- correctifs spécifiques pour Linux (L4T), notamment au niveau des permissions TSEC GSC ;
- diverses améliorations générales et corrections de bugs.
- Du côté de l’emuMMC, la compatibilité avec le firmware 21.0.0 est désormais assurée, toujours basée sur le travail collaboratif avec le dépôt de m4xw.
Changelog Nyx 1.8.0 :
La mise à jour la plus marquante de Nyx concerne son eMMC Partition Manager, qui gagne une fonctionnalité :
la possibilité de redimensionner la partition HOS USER, indispensable sur les consoles équipées d’eMMC de capacité supérieure (32/64 Go et plus).
Ce nouvel outil ouvre également la voie à un partitionnement simplifié pour Linux et Android, en reprenant les optimisations de performance déjà appliquées au système sur carte SD.
Nyx bénéficie également d’un ensemble de raffinements appréciables :
- gestion améliorée du temps, avec support automatique de l’heure d’été ;
- dump plus complet des fichiers système (Package1/2, BCTs, kips FAT32/exFAT) ;
- amélioration du mode Joy-Con en HID PC, avec meilleure gestion de la fréquence de rapport ;
- détection des cartes SD contrefaites grâce à un contrôle du fabricant ;
- vérifications approfondies pour les puces de gestion d’alimentation et de batterie, avec messages d’erreur clairs ;
- nombreuses corrections d’affichage dans les outils de backup/restore, benchmarks et menus informatifs.
Le BDK (Bootloader Development Kit) profite lui aussi d’une série d’optimisations :
- nouveau système de tri pour les répertoires, meilleure gestion USB HID, extension de la RAMDISK à 1280 Mo,
- améliorations importantes de FatFS, corrections RTC, ajout de nouvelles définitions pour Tegra T210/B01, mise à jour de Minerva, et une rafale de corrections plus discrètes.
hekate v6.4.1 hotfix changes
HOS 21.0.0 support
Fixed NOGC patches for HOS 21.0.0 (v6.4.1 hotfix)
TUI now has a Load Nyx option in case the SD card was inserted later or init temporarily failed.
HOS: Sanitized MC carveouts for very old versions
L4T: Fixed TSECB permissions for TSEC GSC
Various fixes and improvements
emuMMC Changes
HOS 21.0.0 support
As always based on https://github.com/m4xw/emuMMC
Nyx v1.8.1 changes
HOS 21.0.0 support
eMMC Partition Manager
A new functionality was added so users with bigger than 32/64GB eMMC can resize HOS USER partition to fit the new eMMC easily
As a side-effect, since that mirrors a SD partitioning, adding/flashing Linux and Android partitions is also supported.
All performance related tricks for SD are also applied here and to the HOS USER partition.
As always, resizing HOS USER partition re-formats it.
The functionality is hidden and can be accessed by holding Partition SD Card for 5 seconds.
Many fixes/improvements to Partition Manager
Partition manager's FAT fs creation was further improved to additionally optimize performance for FAT records access on new partitioning/formatting
A bug was fixed when partitioning SD Card with Android Dynamic scheme that would cause the emuMMC partition to be offset by -30MB in GPT table
Use Fix Hybrid MBR/GPT to apply the fix on existing setups
Fixed an issue on resized emuMMC where it would not allow HOS to create PrFILE2 SAFE record (can't be applied retroactively)
Fix Hybrid MBR / GPT functionality is now extended
Added removal of invalid/out-of-bounds and empty partitions from GPT
Added a fix for wrong emuMMC offset because of older bugged Android Dynamic scheme
An issue was fixed when creating 58GB FULL emuMMC on Switch OLED where it would be possible to overwrite the last 1MB of it (no need to retroactively fix)
An issue was fixed on resized emuMMC where it was invalidating backup GPT (no need to retroactively fix)
Raw based resized emuMMC in partition manager now allows up to 24GB (was 12GB)
FULL emuMMC sizes are not allowed in the partition manager anymore on upgraded and bigger eMMCs to avoid confusion with create emuMMC (it's not allowed there already).
Improved Package1/2 dumping
It can now dump and decrypt both main and safe (recovery) pkg firmware and also the relevant BCTs.
Additionally, the FS kip that supports both FAT32 and exFAT will now be renamed to FS_exfat.kip1, while the FAT32 only one will remain with FS.kip1
Automatic Daylight Saving Time support for clock was added.
Since timezones do not adjust clock on the same date/time, it's done on an averaged timely manner to avoid TZ clutter.
An issue was also fixed with calculating time/day/month.
The pop up to adjust time will show up again on first boot. Adjust it accordingly to fix the bug and to select auto dst.
Joycon as PC HID Gamepad improved
It now allows OS to control the report rate in order for OS driver to not cause a pipe fail or congestion (it also fixes OSes where it gets disconnected)
It's also possible for Host now to manually request input reports
SD Card Info now shows warning if vendor of SD is fake
All battery and power management ICs in Battery Info are now checked for communication errors and if the version matches.
In case one of them can't be reached an Error! message will show up.
Several UX issues were fixed on various backup/restore tools
Fixed verification % and bar if restored backup is smaller than partition
Bar is now orange for restoring when writing to eMMC/emuMMC.
Fixed bar color on restoring after verification
Allow verification to be skipped for all parts in partial mode (FAT32 or small card) automatically after the first skip
Corrected several warnings where it would refer to eMMC instead of emuMMC
HW Info will now say when SBK/DK is locked and can't be read, instead of showing FF.
SDMMC errors now update automatically after running SD benchmark to avoid reentering SD Card Info to check them
bpmpclock is now extended from 3 to 5 modes. 4 being the slowest boost and 5 being the stock clock.
Fixed not showing HOS version for 22 burnt fuses (v1.8.1 hotfix)
Various fixes and improvements
BDK changes
DIRLIST: dirlist function was revamped and it now uses flags for options that also allow ASCII/Aa-Zz ordering selection.
INI: Restored ASCII ordering for ini_parse when reading .ini files
SMMU: Ability to disable smmu was added
USB: Removed unused endpoints from descriptors and adjusted driver to not expect them
USB: HID: Idle rate support was added for HID gadgets so badly coded OS drivers do not cause a pipe fail
USB: HID: Get report support was added in case host wants to pull a report manually
RAMDISK: Size was extended 1280 MB via reordering memory mapping
FatFS: mkfs was improved further in order to optimize filesystem performance even more
FatFS: PrFILE2: Fixed an issue on mkfs that would not allow PrFILE2 to create a SAFE record
RTC: Fixed an off-by-one calculation for Month that affects also day and time because of conversion calculations.
RTC: Added DST support
PMC: pmc_enable_partition was renamed to pmc_domain_pwrgate_set
FUSE: Added a fuse sense function
HWINIT: Fix RAM_SVOP_PDP set for good
HWINIT: Refactored T210 bootloader MBIST WAR
Tegra: Added BIT/BCT headers for T210 and T210B01
Minerva: Updated to v1.5
Various fixes and improvements