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Support for open-source Radeon OpenCL drivers #33

Open gdevenyi opened 10 years ago

gdevenyi commented 10 years ago

Looks like the OpenCL implementation for radeon card at least partially works, getting access to the driver code paths could allow us better performance than with a closed source (linux) proprietary blob.

Some notes (re bfgminer) here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72785

veox commented 10 years ago

Sounds nice.

I'm wondering about compatibility for Windows users. The way things are going right now: there's @troky's branch that implements building on MSVS2010, which is a simpler solution for Windows users (compared to MinGW). On the other hand, MinGW is easier to maintain (allows cross-compiling, easier to verify that build works).

I'm not sure as to direction we should be taking. Personally, I'd prefer it be Linux-only (removes a lot of headaches), and just recommend running Linux to those who really want to run sgminer. This does sound like an asshole move, though.

iguyking commented 10 years ago

Lots of us are mining on the side or don't have a fully dedicated rig, so if it has to be mingw that is fine. I request you don't go Linux only. On Feb 7, 2014 1:29 PM, "Noel Maersk" notifications@github.com wrote:

Sounds nice.

I'm wondering about compatibility for Windows users. The way things are going right now: there's @troky https://github.com/troky's branch that implements building on MSVS2010, which is a simpler solution for Windows users (compared to MinGW). On the other hand, MinGW is easier to maintain (allows cross-compiling, easier to verify that build works).

I'm not sure as to direction we should be taking. Personally, I'd prefer it be Linux-only (removes a lot of headaches), and just recommend running Linux to those who really want to run sgminer. This does sound like an asshole move, though.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/veox/sgminer/issues/33#issuecomment-34491110 .

veox commented 10 years ago

@iguyking that is why I have a concern.

Have you tried building @troky's branch already?