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Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU by sklogic on Monday May 02, 2016 @04:34PM (#11615345)
VPU is not a GPU, it was designed for stuff like video decoding. It is just a simple RISC with some SIMD instructions.

QPU is a different beast, in VC4 it cannot even run arbitraty C code. In VC5 it can, but inefficiently.

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