Hacking the Raspberry Pis Video Core IV GPU Louis Howe

Hacking the Raspberry Pi s VideoCore IV GPU for Fun, but Definitely Not for Profit. Talk by Louis Howe at pdxbyte 6, 10, 14. Let s delve into the murky, semiopensource guts of the Pi s GPU We ll explore its architecture, check out some sweet hacks and reverseengineering efforts, and livecode a baremetal QPU app in assembly. Whether you re on a mission for open hardware or just morbidly curious, come for a discussion of why anyone would spend their time digging into a closed firmware blob, as well as s