Table of contents

Ressources

QPU assembler code

• VideoCore® IV 3D Architecture Reference Guide [published 2013-09-16; visited 2021-10-31T23:08:23Z]. local copy
• Accelerating Fourier transforms using the GPU [published 2014-01-30; visited 2021-10-31T22:29:19Z]; former link (now dead): https://www.raspberrypi.org/accelerating-fourier-transforms-using-the-gpu/
• Corresponding Git repository: firmware/opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_fft at master · raspberrypi/firmware [visited 2021-11-05T22:32:41Z]
• GPGPU hacking on the Pi [published 2014-06-20; visited 2021-10-31T22:26:46Z]; former link (now dead): https://www.raspberrypi.org/gpgpu-hacking-on-the-pi/

• Hacking The GPU For Fun And Profit [visited 2021-10-31T22:40:09Z] (SHA-256)

  Parts:

  • Hacking The GPU For Fun And Profit (Pt. 1) [published 2014-05-03; visited 2021-10-31T23:00:44Z]
  • Hacking The GPU For Fun And Profit (Pt. 2) [published 2014-05-06; visited 2021-10-31T23:00:53Z]
  • Hacking The GPU For Fun And Profit (Pt. 3) [published 2014-05-13; visited 2021-10-31T23:01:00Z]
  • Hacking The GPU For Fun And Profit (Pt. 4) [published 2014-05-21; visited 2021-10-31T23:01:17Z]

Vulkan on the Raspberry Pi

• v3dv: quick guide to build and run some demos – infapi00 [published 2020-06-09; last updated 2020-11-25; visited 2022-04-13T21:23:22Z]
• src/broadcom · main · Mesa / mesa · GitLab [visited 2022-04-23T20:59:20Z]: the folder in the Git repository of Mesa that is likely relevant for our purposes

Mailbox functionality

TODO

Instruction set

Registers

• ra0-ra31
• rb0-rb31

Instructions

An instruction consists of 64 bit (8 byte) in little-endian format.