The first milestone for the ARM/DSP Bridge project has already been achieved, before the Summer of Code has even officially started! In an astounding flash of documentation reading and hacking, Summer of Code student Darchon has code running on the DSP, loaded from the ARM portion of the CPU. This work will remove a barrier currently preventing open source CODECs from running on the DSP. Don't worry, though, there is still plenty of work to be done. A protocol for efficient data transfer will have to be designed, or adapted from a similar project. This framework will have to be implemented on the the ARM side (running under the Linux kernel), and the DSP side (running, for the most part, on bare metal). And although it's not part of this project, the work won't be very useful without some audio or video CODECs to run. This is an important first step for the project. Keep up the awesome work, Darchon!

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