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Pi in the Boot..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 18, 2012 by RGMarch 18, 2012

The Raspberry Pi boot sequence is somewhat unique, due – amongst other things – to the binary code blobs necessary to drive the Broadcom CPU/GPU at boot time. The FAT32 boot partition looks like this: The three binary files arm<nnn>_start.elf provide varying allocations of the processor for CPU (compute) versus GPU (video) work.     This effectively means that … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux / ARM, Raspberry Pi | Tagged boot partition, boot partition contents, cpu/gpu, fat32, imagetool, kernel.img, raspberry pi | Leave a reply
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