Homebrew What is in an "arm9loaderhax.bin" anyways?

[Knucklesfan]

We've been installing arm9loaderhax.bin for a year now, so what's inside of one anyways?

 

[xtheman]

You don't install arm9loaderhax.bin. You install arm9loaderhax. a9lh is just set to launch arm9loaderhax.bin from sd card or ctrnand. the .bin contains whatever you use.
A cfw, a tool like D9, and other things.

 

[metroid maniac]

Your CFW typically.

 

[Knucklesfan]

Your CFW typically.

So, like all the code inside of Luma is in there? Ah. I see now,

 

[_Shebang]

Misunderstood the question, assumed he was talking about A9LH rather than the .bin.

 

[xtheman]

So, like all the code inside of Luma is in there? Ah. I see now,

Yes. Or whatever cfw you use.

 

[metroid maniac]

So, like all the code inside of Luma is in there? Ah. I see now,

Yes.
Arm9loaderhax itself is the stuff in the /a9lh/ folder (stage1, stage2, arguably other components) and it gets installed to NAND.

 

[evandixon]

Arm9loaderhax is an exploit in the boot sequence (through ROP, IIRC apparently not - regardless, it's not as direct as sighax will allow) that can run arbitrary code. Arm9loaderhax is a raw ARM9 executable, AFAIK.

 

[metroid maniac]

Arm9loaderhax is an exploit in the boot sequence (through ROP, IIRC) that can run arbitrary code. Arm9loaderhax is a raw ARM9 executable, AFAIK.

A9LH has nothing to do with ROP.
Arm9loaderhax.bin is just an ARM9 binary.

 

[Knucklesfan]

A9LH has nothing to do with ROP.
Arm9loaderhax.bin is just an ARM9 binary.

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