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		sklogic on Sept 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Interim Operating System Nitpicking: it's a VPU which runs the bootstrap blob, not the QPU (the latter is well documented and fairly open, unlike the former).

mntmn on Sept 16, 2015 [–]

Thanks for that correction, will look into it and correct.

sklogic on Sept 16, 2015 | | [–]

Btw., VPU had been reverse-engineered to a degree, should be sort of possible to roll out your own bootstrap now: https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

hermanhermitage on Sept 16, 2015 | | [–]

I think there is enough info to do a jit_vpu_raw.c, which could be a fun project!

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