XIP Porting GUIDE!!!!

**CFay** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 12:29 AM

Apparantly im ego hungry and posted this for "my ego"

Instead of an XIP guide i will leave you with the definition of the day.
Ego hungry- (as defined by Guru)- helping others including your friends understand information.

vboyz103 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 12:43 AM

thanks for posting the guide OP...question on the step where it said "Do these exact steps for you new XIP too!"

Do you mean we do the same steps for Diamond ROM? Just wanted to clarify.

**SBR_L3GION** · #3 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 12:51 AM

nice tutorial will try it out soon.

**CFay** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 01:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vboyz103

thanks for posting the guide OP...question on the step where it said "Do these exact steps for you new XIP too!"

Do you mean we do the same steps for Diamond ROM? Just wanted to clarify.

Correct do it for both roms

AceszHigh · #5 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 01:13 AM

If not done already, you may want to consider posting this in the "how tos for developing" sticky

**DHarvey** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 01:33 AM

It's a sad thing that Yay 4 Juggs is so against stickies these days as this thread is going to become very popular very fast and really should be stickied.

Thanks for the tutorial. Can't wait for the "Elaborated Photographed" version.

Dan.

vboyz103 · #7 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 02:04 AM

sorry to be dumb here but what is the purpose of porting XIP from one ROM to another?

**SBR_L3GION** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vboyz103

sorry to be dumb here but what is the purpose of porting XIP from one ROM to another?

there are many perks to it. some have better memory management and better power management and of course the feeling of having the latest thing from microsoft.

**boggsie** · #9 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 08:03 AM

Well, there is a thread specifically stickied for exactly this type of information. The last post in that thread is GGuruUSA posting his XIP Port guide.

I think the OP should be added to the stickied Development thread so the information doesn't get lost, while discussions on the subject would take place in this thread.

Best regards,
-boggsie

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHarvey

It's a sad thing that Yay 4 Juggs is so against stickies these days as this thread is going to become very popular very fast and really should be stickied.

Thanks for the tutorial. Can't wait for the "Elaborated Photographed" version.

Dan.

zeurx · #10 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 09:28 AM

one suggestion, the start of the second XIP may not always be 0x00320000, instead search for the HEX string "FE 03 00 EA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00", there will be two of these HEX strings (One for the first XIP and one for the second XIP) and will signify the beginning of an XIP. one tool that is suppose to automate the extraction process is XIPTools http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=14952 but i have yet to get it to work with the vogue, well really haven't tried to hard, and have lost the source

Edit: I also always have a problem with porting an XIP, "ERROR! Unknown o32 region flags: d0000040"...