[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] bfgminer package

[Martin Str|mberg]

According to Scott Howard:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Martin Str|mberg <ams at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
> > Speaking of non-free, as cgminer (with GPU support) requires non-free
> > AMD or Nvidia drivers, does that make cgminer go into non-free or
> > contrib or what?
> 
> You don't need AMD or Nvidia drivers since you don't need a GPU to run
> cgminer. USB devices (FPGAs) and cpus are supported even if you don't
> have non-free enabled. Now Avalons and BFL SCs are supported too, you
> can run cgminer on a raspberry pi using entirely main sources.

Ok. That's ok for FPGA mining. However some might like to use it to
mine on GPUs, so will two different cgminer packages be available? One
which is free and not supporting GPUs and another non-free supporting
GPUs?


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MartinS