>>>>> "KB" == Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes:
KB> Thanks. The use of the word "mining" still confuses me, I presume the idea is that searching for pre-images is not unlike searching for ore in the ground. And it puns well with the concept of finding money/wealth by mining. KB> Most (all?) FPGA chips have undisclosed bitstream formats. KB> I see, dimly. The comparison to conventional chips would be one where the machine code is undisclosed, but a beer-free assembler is provided, which generates encrypted binaries. The manufacturer's goal being to prevent their competitors from producing a compatible chip. So one could target that assembler with gcc, could partially port binutils, but could not port gas. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
