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Raspberry Pi VideoCore driver code released

Posted Oct 25, 2012 23:23 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Raspberry Pi VideoCore driver code released by dlang
Parent article: Raspberry Pi VideoCore driver code released

It depends on whether the second CPU has access to the RAM and devices of the first, no?

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Posted Oct 26, 2012 9:37 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

>It depends on whether the second CPU has access to the RAM and devices of the first, no?

As if there wasn't other devices with drivers in the Linux kernel which has closed source firmware and which can corrupt your RAM with DMA.
If memory serves, the IO-MMU which can protect you from buggy devices is(was?) often deactivated because it didn't work correctly..