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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by fanf2 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:30PM (#37693676)
Interesting. Did the earlier Raspberry Pi Broadcom SOCs not have an IOMMU? If they did I would have expected the 5 to be compatible with older ones.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by bpye on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:20PM (#37694360)
I'm fairly sure that none of the earlier SoCs had an IOMMU. It's of course possible that there was one hidden in the GPU or something, but nothing on the CPU side.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by proompter5 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:22AM (#37762368)
What would be the benefit of having their own IOMMU instead of just using the ARM SMMU?
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