Judging demand;- MinePeon x86 (GPU & Litecoin Mining)?

[MineForeman.com]

Hi All,

I have received a few emails lately asking me to port MinePeon from ARM to x86.

The main advantage to this is you would be able to use it on your x86 mining rigs for GPU mining as well as everything that it already does and scrypt mining for litecoin.

Before I start to undertake this project I want to find out if it is needed by the community before I spend the hours required.  I would intend to make it what BAMT set out to be but was doped due to lack of community support.

So, the question is do you want it?

[dodegkr]

+1

[crazyates]

The only problem with something like this for GPU mining is the added complication of supporting ATI drivers from the distro. Would you include the driver? Multiple versions?

[kano]

Here there be monsters.

[lewisg]

GPU mining alone is unless.

[davebodger]

+1 for Litecoin/Scrypt on CPUs and GPUs

[bcpokey]

I hesitate to say yes. Not because I don't think it'd be great, but because I would hate for you to spend a lot of time on something that might not be rewarding.

I personally am looking at setting up some boxes at a new location with 7xxx series, not supported by bamt, and a quicky mine based linux would certainly be great, but if things fall through, with either the location or mining in its current form, I'd certainly be abandoning in a hurry.

So put me in for +1/2, as I'd like it, but I don't want you to knock yourself out over it

[Reckman]

+1 bamt is a nightmare with 7xxx series

[cnaw]

Sounds awesome.  Hope you get enough support and do it.

[th3joker]

Sounds fantastic, I was looking for a way to do this very thing myself.

I love MinePeon and use it for my modminer quads, having it on my gpu rigs as well would be fantastic!!

I'm willing to beta test and help out where I can ;-)

[MineForeman.com]

Hmm,

I have to say, the response is somewhat underwhelming. 

Sure there are a few people who want it but the amount of effort required to do this seems unwarranted and I would be better off just putting all of my effort into MinePeon ARM.  Perhaps if someone but a big enough bounty on it.

Neil

[dudeofthestick]

+1

Are your building scripts open? Keep in mind that being strict about GPL, you should open source them. May be it could become a communiTy project.

[MineForeman.com]

+1

Are your building scripts open? Keep in mind that being strict about GPL, you should open source them. May be it could become a communiTy project.

Everything is open (you sound very close to threatening me with the GPL without even looking by the way).

The thing is it is not like copying a few scripts and there you go, it is far more complicated and time intensive as you seem to think (and I am not even mentioning that the AMD drivers have their own licence that needs to be dealt with)

Neil

[dudeofthestick]

Yes, I know minepeon... and the reason why I asked you was because I could not find the building scripts for the distro...

I'm not threatening you in anyway...  I'm not going to run to the GNU foundation to snitch... 

I have been involved in the development of custom linux distros for years and I was considering helping you and the rest of guys and girls joining the party... But something I have learnt the hard way is that community development must be strict about licensing issues. And simply you can't bundle a linux distro with non-compatible GPL licenses, you need to find innovative ways to do it (ubuntu multiverse can be an example). So, I just wanted to know if it would be a community effort or not.

I think it makes perfect sense to continue with the development of minepeon on your own. It's a great job! But I'm not interested if it's not strict GPL (and GNU rules) compliant.





 

[dxtwo]

+1 bamt is a nightmare with 7xxx series

+1

[kodo]

Theres great demand for LTC right now I suggest you mine it.

[th3joker]

I think there's an updated version of bamt for 7970's floating around, I have a copy at work and will test it out tomorrow and see how we fare.

If it's any good I'll host up a link for it.

[th3joker]

Though an intel version of MinePeon would be much better, seriously nice distro props to MineForeman.com.

What amount of bounty would be acceptable for an Intel version?

[Herp-a-derp]

+1 bamt is a nightmare with 7xxx series

+1

+1

[dsky]

+1