Vendor glossary

[samueldr]

(This should be moved to the documentation once we have some of it defined...)

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Aerith

The codename for the SoC of the LCD Steam Deck.

/sys/class/dmi/id/product_family:Aerith

Chachani

Unclear. Seen in BIOS update screens, and referred in even the galileo BIOS.

Foxnet

A private wireguard network for in-development hardware.

This service is development-only, and will not persist to production units. It enrolls the unit in a private 'foxnet' wireguard VPN, exposes SSH access to it, allows remote administration, as well as submission of telemetry if the foxnetstatsd service is available.

Galileo

The OLED Steam Deck model.

• Jovian-Experiments/linux@e08dfd2

AKA: F7G, Galilypad, Gal(?)

Galileo packages are distributed side-by-side with Jupiter packages.

Holo

The non-steamdeck organizational name of Steam OS components.

Jupiter

The LCD Steam Deck model.

• Jovian-Experiments/linux@9eeb7b4

/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name:Jupiter
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_name:Jupiter

AKA: F7A

Neptune

Unclear. For now assumed to be the controller hardware permanently attached to the Steam Deck. It might have been an earlier codename (linux-firmware-neptune)

neptune-ctl is a package that only refers to gamepad, and related debugging features.

• https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/PKGBUILDs-mirror/blob/368a032bd990122b9288b0812d0675436592ccf9/neptunectl.py#L18

Sephiroth

The (unverified) codename for the SoC of the OLED Steam Deck.