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BitTube Miner
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ipbc miner ppc64le support? #1

Closed night2417 closed 6 years ago

night2417 commented 6 years ago

I have a question about the new ipbc miner. If you connect to the site https://github.com/nioroso-x3/xmr-stak …, you can also support linux ppc64le IBM Power8. Will IPBC miners be supported? Or is it impossible?

mrosset commented 6 years ago

it's might be possible, I have access to a power8 machine will try to do some porting. will report back

night2417 commented 6 years ago

Thank you. I look forward to your reporting. mrosset

mrosset commented 6 years ago

so far there are issues with aes hardware support, an cpuid support. As far as I can see it's not an easy fix at this stage. I'm going to keep picking at it though see what I can do.

mrosset commented 6 years ago

@night2417 can you build https://github.com/nioroso-x3/xmr-stak on your power8 meantime. it supports monerov7 and friends . but not the new ipbc lite algo. when I have more time I'll try figure out how to get the two merged together some how.

you'll need gcc-7.3 and cmake 3 for to build that fork. also you have to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the libstdc++ lib diretory if you build gcc manually. my power8 distro uses gcc 4.8 dunno about yours.

Maybe we can get @nioroso-x3 to add the new ipbc lite algo to his fork.

ipbc-dev commented 6 years ago

CPU mining is no longer profitable with the new algorithm and as such there're no plans to extend the support for other CPU architectures.