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Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT usefulAirlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT usefulPosted Oct 26, 2012 14:57 UTC (Fri) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)In reply to: Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful by arnd Parent article: Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful
Well another similarity to NVIDIA I expect, is that this Broadcom blob can also scribble over whatever memory it likes.
So should you trust kernel bug reports from RPi systems?
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Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful Posted Oct 26, 2012 20:29 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
> this Broadcom blob can also scribble over whatever memory it likes
As I understand it, this blob is in the user space. It can only scribble over its own memory.
Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful Posted Oct 26, 2012 20:47 UTC (Fri) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link]
The user-space blob on the ARM side is what BCM have open-sorced. The remaining closed component is the GPU firmware which can indeed scribbl over anything it likes since the GPU is in many ways the main processor.
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