ckolivas/cgminer — Issue #141: VIA algo does not work on VIA Eden-Nehemiah: Illegal Instruction
Author: quanttrom
Created: 2012-02-25 05:45:50+00:00
State: open

Hello,

I am not 100% sure if the VIA algorithm is supposed to work on this CPU but I am lead to believe so. Please have a look at my captures.

Thanks !

bitcoin@thin:~/cgminer$ cgminer -a auto
[2012-02-25 00:40:41] benchmarking all sha256 algorithms ...
[2012-02-25 00:40:41] "c" : benchmarking algorithm ...
[2012-02-25 00:41:36] "c" : algorithm runs at 0.07653 MH/s
[2012-02-25 00:41:36] "via" : benchmarking algorithm ...
[2012-02-25 00:41:37] "via" : algorithm fails on this platform
[2012-02-25 00:41:37] "cryptopp" : benchmarking algorithm ...

bitcoin@thin:~/cgminer$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : VIA Nehemiah
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 796.154

bitcoin@thin:~/cgminer$ cgminer -a via --config cgminer.conf
[2012-02-25 00:44:36] Started cgminer 2.3.1
[2012-02-25 00:44:36] Probing for an alive pool
[2012-02-25 00:44:36] Long-polling activated for ***
[2012-02-25 00:44:36] Pool 0 *** aliveIllegal instruction