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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] cpuminer-opt v3.23.3, open source optimized multi-algo x86_64 CPU miner
by
scryptr
on 14/10/2023, 22:29:07 UTC
R-PI MAY BE CRIPPLED--

This is an old post from "oink70", who optimized Monkins' Verushash ccminer:

        "Oink70 (2 yr. ago on Reddit)

Mining Verus is impossible on any Raspberry device. The Raspberry company did not license all CPU instructions, so the required functions are not available on Raspberry branded devices.  As far as I know Raspberry is the only brand that crippled the CPU, so any other ARM device should work."

I picked up your recent interest in coding for ARM processors after reading the CryptoMining-Blog post on VerusCoin (VRSC) mining.  I have been able to compile XMrig and tpruvot's CPUminer-Multi on my R-pi.  The above CCminer packages (Monkins & oink70) will not compile.

I am currently mining VerusCoin on a new Orange Pi 5.  Verushash and MinotaurX look like good targets for coding, if you are able to find the right functions.

Raspberry Pi 5 is scheduled to hit the market this month, I believe.  The CPU runs at 2.4 GHZ.

Hope to see some fresh code to match!       --scryptr

Hold off on testing, it won't compile.

I have now have a Raspberry Pi so I have to work throuh the build issues. More news soon.

Looking for miners with ARM CPUs.

cpuminer-opt-3.23.4, source code only, has initial support for 64 bit AArch64 CPUs with NEON, SHA2 & AES.
It's experimental and untested. It needs testers. See Wiki for details...

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/wiki/Support-for-AARCH64