[raspi-internals] Re: Hey, look, QPU docs

  • From: Ron Harwood <harwoodr@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspi-internals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:19:23 -0500

Oooh, I'll have to have a closer read through
brcm_usrlib/dag/vmcsx/vcinclude/vc_asm_ops.h


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Guess what Broadcom's just released!
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-AG100-R.pdf
>
> It looks like the QPU and 3D hardware specs, including detailed
> information on the QPU instruction set. It would seem the main CPU isn't
> included in this, unfortunately.
>
> However they've also released a big chunk of source code which seems to
> include VC4 assembly:
>
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/Brcm_Android_ICS_Graphics_Stack.tar.gz
>
> It all looks kinda familiar, which is good.
>
> (Both links from the Broadcom support page:
>   http://www.broadcom.com/support/)
>
> Disclaimer: I have no idea how much of the above you can look at and
> stay clean. I'm dirty so it's not relevant to me. But if you want to
> stay clean, be aware.
>
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