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Title: ASICMiner Blade - Communication & Control Board Substitution Post by: dbkeys on September 23, 2013, 06:12:14 PM Is there information which would enable someone to replace the comm/control module, which only speaks getwork() with another unit ? Say, something programmed to understand Stratum protocol, without the need for an intermediate proxy. Or, can the same module be re-programmed ( I believe it's a 18x serier Microchip PIC processor) ?
Title: Re: ASICMiner Blade - Communication & Control Board Substitution Post by: sveetsnelda on September 23, 2013, 07:32:49 PM The module can be reprogrammed (there's a PICKIT header on the controller PCB). It just can't be read (code protect bit is set). If someone wanted to write something from scratch, I suppose they could. That sounds like a lot of unnecessary work though compared to just running a stratum proxy.
Title: Re: ASICMiner Blade - Communication & Control Board Substitution Post by: dbkeys on September 24, 2013, 06:54:06 PM The module can be reprogrammed (there's a PICKIT header on the controller PCB). It just can't be read (code protect bit is set). If someone wanted to write something from scratch, I suppose they could. That sounds like a lot of unnecessary work though compared to just running a stratum proxy. Would ASICMiner release the code ? What it's doing is not like a trade secret, it's calculating hashes .... open sourcing it could breathe some measure of life into these blades. |