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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 06:47:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Re: last boost:
   The raspi boots faster if you overclock the GPU, because the GPU is used TO LOAD THE KERNEL?!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 07:00:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     It's mentioned in passing in this article:
     https://chaos.social/@manawyrm/113064393538505044

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 07:02:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Manawyrm | Sarah

     @manawyrm I mean it makes some sense, it's just... Mindboggling.

     It feels like how on the PC you need to turn on half your ram through the keyboard controller

   • Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 07:02:56 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

     in reply to

     @foone The GPU searches for the SD card, loads and parses the config.txt file, sets many of the required options, parses device tree overlays, etc. etc.

     And yes, it loads kernel and initramfs into memory and then resets/enables the main ARM CPU.

     A classic Broadcom move 😹
     (with the GPU core being a highly proprietary VideoCore IV architecture)