Enable GPU mining and direct IO on Raspberry pi 4?

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A fast Burstcoin miner written in Rust

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Enable GPU mining and direct IO on Raspberry pi 4? #99

Closed McNose closed 3 years ago

McNose commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I am using scavenger 1.7.8 on my raspberry pi 4 with 8GB and 64bit to mine some burst on two external HDDs. It works pretty good.

Now i want to finetune it. Unfortunately the pi 4 does not support OpenCL. And it seems like direct IO is not supported as well.

I am not a programmer so it might be that I am wrong. That´s why am asking you. Is it possible to use direct IO or even GPU mining on a pi 4? In case not, do you think it will be enabled in newer scavenger releases?

Thanks a lot.

JohnnyFFM commented 3 years ago

The PI itself doesnt support directio nor has any decent Gpu, that would help hashing. -> not gonna happen

McNose commented 3 years ago

Actually the new Pi 4 has a lot of power, so I thought there would be a little workaround or someting. If I am right the Pi3 supports OpenCL for GPU Mining, but because of USB 2.0 it is not an option to use it.

Well, maybe I will overclock my pi 4 and see if it boosts the hashing a little.

Thanks for your answer.