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to: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
from: RICHARD KETTLEWELL
date: 2021-01-05 11:13:00
subject: Re: AI and decompilation?

Ahem A Rivet's Shot  writes:
> Richard Kettlewell  wrote:
>> gareth evans  writes:
>>> I am particularly interested in the Binary Blob
>>> provided for Raspberry Pi computers, with a view to
>>> getting detailed knowledge of the video processors
>>> employed therein.
>>
>> Why would you do that instead of reading a reference manual for the
>> target architecture?
>
>  The documentation for the GPU on the RPi has not been published,
> he seeks to reverse engineer it from the binary code that implements a
> published API on it.

I was under the impression it was a VideoCore IV, which appears to be
sufficiently documented for GNU toolchain port.

https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12358545
https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain

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