From 06f0f410221c0e4dbc03905347af688c03d9e5a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:39:57 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9b8e232a..7298076e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,89 @@ +Version 3.3.0 - 24th June 2013 + +- Add an --avalon-temp option to allow a user specified target temperature. +- Demote no matching work message to verbose logging only on avalon. +- Make the fan control on the avalon a simple PID controller with a target +temperature of 45. +- Demote bflsc hw error messages to verbose logging only. +- bflsc - handle xlink timeouts by having generic IO functions +- Demote the invalid nonce warning to log info. +- Ignore iManufacturer for BFLSC devices since the device name will still match +and some unbinned chips are missing it. +- sc_count shouldn't be +1 in bflsc. +- Use the info timeout for read_nl in getidentify bflsc. +- Add a usb_read_nl_timeout macro. +- bflsc try getinfo twice +- set MSG_ASCUSBNODEV always defined +- Hard code the preferred packet size for AMU, BLT and ICA. +- API V1.26 update ASIC support +- Icarus enable the read buffer for the detect nonce +- Support new overclocking speeds for avalon: 325, 350 and 375 +- undo icarus show errno, put it as debug in ubsutils +- icarus add errno to rerr and werr +- Sleep after sending icarus work to emulate working at 115200 baud. +- Use the nusleep function for sleeping after sending work in avalon. +- Show an integer only for diff if it is one. +- Set the avalon preferred packet size to 512. +- Reinstate the maxPacketSize determined by the end descriptor but allow the +driver to override it. +- Only update hashmeter if we have done hashes or haven't updated longer than +the log interval, fixing a us/ms error. +- Use only one cgsem in avalon signalling when the write thread should commit +work by reading the status bytes off during an avalon_read, minimising the +number of usb calls and resetting from only one place. +- Change avalon no valid work message to no matching work to match API +terminology. +- Use low latency usb transfers on the avalon, sleeping up to half a buffer's +worth only if no data is returning to increase hashrate, abolish lost work and +decrease CPU. +- Minimise the sleep times in avalon read to avoid result loss. +- Use a half nonce range before cycling through avalon's scanwork to ensure it +gets a chance to fill work if time is tight for the write thread to signal a +wakeup. +- Temporarily limit usb transfer sizes to 512 till we provide a way for each +driver to choose the upper limit. +- Increase watchdog sick time to longer than it takes for a pool to be detected +dead. +- Limit USB transfers to the max size reported by the descriptors. +- Increase the BFLSC timeout to allow the maximum number of results to be +returned for BAS in time. +- Decrease BAL and BAS latency to be just larger than one result read. +- disable curses device resize that crashes on windows +- BFLSC latest firmware has its own thermal cutoff set to 90, so use the same +value in case we have an old firmware that isn't throttling by itself. +- Drop watermark low limits for bflsc. +- Set the fanspeed on bflsc to max if we don't know the temperature. +- Use a low watermark for queueing mandatory work on bflsc instead of zero. +- Only mandatorily grab the bflsc mutex on submitting work when the queue is +empty. +- Adjust bflsc v2 watermarks. +- Only increase sleep time on bflsc if the queue isn't emptying at all over the +sleep duration. +- Fix warning. +- bflsc yet more API stats +- bflsc add some more API stats +- bflsc correct firmware matching +- bflsc correct comment +- Fixed Commands with No params +- bflsc driver support for v2 firmware +- Odd Issues +- Fixed Python Example +- Added Python Api Example +- Added Python Api Example +- Multiplier fail for microseconds vs milliseconds when updating hashmeter in +hash_queued_work. +- Only make threads report in/out across the actual driver code and update their +status on reporting out as well as in. +- usbutils initialise close key/sem +- usbutils cleanup linux semaphores on release +- Difficulty should be unconditionally byteswapped, not swapped to big endian. +- We should be setting cancelstate, not canceltype when disabling it for usb +locking. +- Pthread cancel state should be set to disable on usb DEVLOCK. +- Fanauto on bflsc is Z9X according to the source code, not 5 as per the draft +protocol document. + + Version 3.2.2 - 16th June 2013 - Record and report USB pipe errors via API stats