Xbox 360 Architecture - A Practical Analysis

Cover
1 - About this edition
	1.1 - Open to feedback
2 - A quick introduction
	2.1 - Highly recommended pre-reading
	2.2 - Personal video introduction
3 - Suporting Imagery
	3.1 - Models
	3.2 - Motherboard
	3.3 - Diagram
4 - CPU
	4.1 - Introduction
		4.1.1 - From complier to ruler
		4.1.2 - Sharing common problems
		4.1.3 - Resentful old friends
		4.1.4 - The new CPU partner
	4.2 - Cell’s half-sibling
		4.2.1 - A new look at CPU history
	4.3 - How this study is organised
		4.3.1 - The different approach for Xenon
	4.4 - Inside Xenon: The messenger
		4.4.1 - Shared cache
	4.5 - Inside Xenon: The leader(s)
		4.5.1 - The new vector units
		4.5.2 - A new but short-lived instruction
		4.5.3 - Revisiting old paradigms
			4.5.3.1 - An alternative solution
	4.6 - Inside Xenon: Main Memory
		4.6.1 - Memory Controller
	4.7 - Inside Xenon: Programming styles
5 - Graphics
	5.1 - Overview
		5.1.1 - A new foundation on the way
	5.2 - Architecture of Xenos
	5.3 - Organising the content
	5.4 - Constructing the frame
		5.4.1 - Commands
		5.4.2 - Vertex Shader
		5.4.3 - Rasterisation
		5.4.4 - Pixel Shader
		5.4.5 - Pixel Operations
	5.5 - The impact on the industry
	5.6 - Video Output
		5.6.1 - Short-lived features
		5.6.2 - New attitudes towards resolutions
6 - Audio
	6.1 - The hidden audio chip
		6.1.1 - A codec-rich industry
		6.1.2 - One more push for WMA
	6.2 - A look at the XMA accelerator
7 - I/O
	7.1 - Clever L2 access
	7.2 - The core of Southbridge
	7.3 - External interfaces
		7.3.1 - Wired with a chance of Wireless
	7.4 - Internal interfaces
	7.5 - That interactive accessory
8 - Operating System (and backwards compatibility)
	8.1 - Overview
		8.1.1 - A tumultuous progress
		8.1.2 - A recallable security design
	8.2 - Architecture
		8.2.1 - The Hypervisor
		8.2.2 - The Kernel
		8.2.3 - The User land
	8.3 - Backwards compatibility
	8.4 - Storage medium
		8.4.1 - Boot ROM
		8.4.2 - Internal NAND
		8.4.3 - Memory Units and HDDs
		8.4.4 - External USB
	8.5 - Boot process
		8.5.1 - Multicore chaos
		8.5.2 - Boot procedure
	8.6 - Updatability
	8.7 - Interactive shell
		8.7.1 - The ‘Blades’ dashboard (2005)
		8.7.2 - The ‘New Xbox Experience’ (2008)
		8.7.3 - The ‘Kinect’ update (2010)
		8.7.4 - The ‘Metro’ revamp (2011)
9 - Games
	9.1 - Development ecosystem
		9.1.1 - Available tools and kits
	9.2 - Storage medium
		9.2.1 - Retail games
		9.2.2 - Online store
		9.2.3 - The Blu-ray competitor
	9.3 - Network service
10 - Anti-Piracy and Homebrew
	10.1 - Main targets
	10.2 - The hypervisor front
		10.2.1 - A hidden cryptographic system
			10.2.1.1 - Rand unit
			10.2.1.2 - Extra storage
			10.2.1.3 - eFuses
			10.2.1.4 - Cryptography unit
		10.2.2 - Security implementations
			10.2.2.1 - Chain of Trust
			10.2.2.2 - Irreversable and unique numbers
			10.2.2.3 - Secure communication
		10.2.3 - The hypervisor’s duties
	10.3 - Protecting the DVD reader
		10.3.1 - First-party security
		10.3.2 - Second-party security
	10.4 - Fallback techniques
	10.5 - Defeat
		10.5.1 - The DVD drive saga
		10.5.2 - The hypervisor saga
			10.5.2.1 - The compare flaw
			10.5.2.2 - A new syscall
			10.5.2.3 - King Kong exploit
			10.5.2.4 - Priviledge escalation
	10.6 - Protecting King Kong
		10.6.1 - A hidden maintenance mode
		10.6.2 - The timing attack
		10.6.3 - More CB research
	10.7 - Setting King Kong free
		10.7.1 - A suspicious update
		10.7.2 - The JTAG/SMC hack
	10.8 - The dawn of Homebrew
	10.9 - Outracing Microsoft’s advantage
		10.9.1 - The glitcher
		10.9.2 - Microsoft’s retaliation
		10.9.3 - Selling RGH
		10.9.4 - The endgame
11 - That’s all folks
12 - Support
	12.1 - Other ways of contributing
	12.2 - Acknowledgments
13 - Licensing
14 - Changelog
15 - Sources