Quote from: zefir on August 20, 2014, 03:16:36 PM

Quote from: nst6563 on August 19, 2014, 10:37:59 PM

Quote from: nst6563 on August 02, 2014, 04:59:49 PM

Has anyone gotten CGMiner 4.5 to run with the Gridseed A1 units? I see A1 files in it, I've compiled it with the A1 support....but it never detects the A1 hardware when I run it.

command line: sudo ./cgminer -o pooladdress -u username -p password --bitmine-a1-options 16000:800000:2000

The unit has a built in rpi and the A1 controller board is connected to the GPIO pins. I've tried running on the image that came with the hardware, as well as compiling on a generic raspbian image....same result....it doesn't find the A1 hardware.

What am I missing?

The hardware I'm speaking of is this one in particular:
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Anyone?
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Look, as you noticed by the chosen config options, the upstream cgminer currently supports A1 products from Bitmine only. Without knowing the architecture of a Gridseed (or whatever product using the A1), you won't be able to get it mining (unless it is a 1:1 clone of one of Bitmine's products). If you had the required details, you (or the manufacturer) could write a variant of the A1-board-selector that abstracts the product specific properties and makes it accessible as a vector of A1-chip-chains.

Knowing more or less what I am talking about (I wrote those A1 driver and framework), I suggest you better bother the manufacturer and ask for upstream integration of their private driver (assuming there is one). They essentially have to, i.e. if your product was delivered with a private binary version of cgminer, GPL grants you the right to request the source code. If they refuse to deliver, there are means to deal with GPL violations.

But I guess you were not looking for troubles, so the short answer is this: no, it won't work.

Hey - an answer is an answer right? At least now I know I'm spinning wheels for nothing and can actually chase down the right path. I was under the assumption (I know...don't assume) that they were all at least very close hardware wise with the controller and board implementations.
If I were to get the source, what would I do with it then? I'm not a C coder, so having the source itself won't do me much good to get it working with a more recent version of cgminer. Would I give it to you to look at to gauge feasability of adding it to upstream?