Timeline for Could the $25/£16 Raspberry Pi computer be used to run mining equipment?
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 1:13 | comment | added | Sean Chapman | Yeah, I admit I'm not looking forward to recompiling everything... But it's possible! I don't actually own a FPGA yet sadly. | |
| Dec 24, 2011 at 0:15 | comment | added | David Perry | Agreed, I just wanted to make sure folks were prepared for the amount/level of crazy they're about to be in for grabbing their first ARM platform. You start off thinking "Oh, I'll just compile Bitcoin from source" and then it relies on library X, which relies on Y Z and Q, which each have 7 libraries they rely on none of which have ARM binaries and all of which have to be compiled from source. Total culture shock for those whose primary Linux experience was Ubuntu on i386-compatible hardware. | |
| Dec 24, 2011 at 0:07 | vote | accept | Sean Chapman | ||
| Dec 24, 2011 at 0:07 | comment | added | Sean Chapman | This is what I thought also. I really hope they release a PCI-e breakout for it, but that really is wishful thinking. The project is already amazing as it is. As for recompiling programs, I think you're right that it is completely feasible to run a FPGA since most FPGA/Bitcoin related projects are open source :) | |
| Dec 23, 2011 at 23:53 | history | answered | David Perry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |