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pdxbyte users group (C/C++/Assembly)

New Relic
111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2700
Portland, Oregon 97204, United States (map)
Public WiFi

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Check in at the security desk to get access to the 27th floor. This usually isn't required for official events and meetups.

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First talk at 7 PM - come early for networking or hacking.

Hacking the Raspberry Pi’s VideoCore IV GPU for Fun, but Definitely Not for Profit (7:00-7:30 PM)

Let’s delve into the murky, semi-open-source guts of the Pi’s GPU! We’ll explore its architecture, check out some sweet hacks and reverse-engineering efforts, and live-code a bare-metal QPU app in assembly. Whether you’re on a mission for open hardware or just morbidly curious, come for a discussion of why anyone would spend their time digging into a closed firmware blob, as well as some speculation about the future of low-power hardware accelerators like the VideoCore.

Louis Howe is an embedded software consultant, architecture enthusiast/Turing machinist, and new Portland transplant.

Practical Hardware Forking (7:45)

Cameron - Thingmaker, musician.

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