Guys i need a bit of help
Burst OS & ARM SupportCurrently i'm developing an
all-in-one GNU/Linux OS for Burst, it will have
all the software needed to use the wallet and
mining tools converted to GUI, open source, with own repository for
install or update your wallet/mining tools easily and a documented wiki. Today was thinking to
support ARM boards too (like Raspberry, Banana Pi/Pro, Cubietruck ...) but i dont have any ARM board to do some tests and developt it correctly. So this CF will be to help me to buy a Banana Pro (it cost like 50-60€, has SATA2 and a good read speed, 100MiB/seg, i think that cheap mini-pc can mine Burst with low energy usage). All the excess will be donated to the Burst PR team.
You can help me and Burst OS developtment via CF AT.
If you dont know about Burst Crownfunding AT, check
HERE.Thank you all,
Kartojal.
the bananapi works great for mining. i did already some tests with it. the most tricky part was to compile a custom kernel to enable sata port multipliers for the controller. during operation the most tricky part is to prevent concurrent traffic on the sata port due to the very low memory bandwidth the device has.
after replacing the shabal files with the ones for arm the dcct miner is capable to mine with up to 8tb within blocktime on this piece of hardware.
plotting may be done on external systems cause this lowend dualcore is only able to plot with about 300 nonces/minute.
also it may be a good idea not to plot over network cause it may increase the plotting machine idle time unproportional compared to direct attached.
if you plug in the drive for plotting into a windows box i am not sure if there is any way to get rw access to xfs, ext4 or zfs.
then plotting over network may be the only option.
running the java wallet directly on the banana pi during mining may become a memory bottleneck but i did'nt test it.
as standalone mining machine with up to 6 tb this approach is a solid standalone solution (beside the java based wallet (poolmining should be fine) and the initial plotting).
maybe you can also try to get the banana nas project (
http://bananas.gda.pl/help/blog/) onboard to include your burst mining repositories.
also in march there shall be the next gen banapi available which has hopefully a quad or biglittle 64bit octacore (
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bananapien/4q6APtYqw5I):
ion wang
Feb 16
we will ready it within March
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:09:19 UTC+8, jaguar431 wrote:
Raspberry Pi 2 arrived to the market. When can we expect Banana Pi 2?
