Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU
by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Monday May 02, 2016 @06:59PM
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How is this different than using gcc like they describe in this book https://jan.newmarch.name/RPi/?
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Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU
by kenz0r on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:14PM
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The LLVM backend that has been written generates code that directly runs on the Videocore GPU, which also handles the early boot process. Your link is concerned with code that runs on the ARM core, and interfaces with the GPU via the existing code running on the GPU