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And fun fact: when the Pi boots up (all generations so far), the primary bootloader is the VPU (VideoCore), which then initializes the CPU and RAM. These thing

And fun fact: when the Pi boots up (all generations so far), the primary bootloader is the VPU (VideoCore), which then initializes the CPU and RAM. These things are slightly weird in that way.

riobard 5y ago
What does the VPU do after boot if the unit is headless?
- deleted 5y ago
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- sydney6 5y ago
  E.g. accelerating video decoding/encoding, OpenGL applications, etc..
- magicalhippo 5y ago
  Well you could use it for GPGPU[1], for example[2]. [1]: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/10/py-videocore6-raspberry-pi-4-gpgpu-python-library-videocore-6-gpu/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/10/py-videocore6-raspbe... [2]: https://github.com/Idein/py-videocore6/blob/master/examples/sgemm.py https://github.com/Idein/py-videocore6/blob/master/examples/...