From 4639aada6a65868bd1ee49e224eeec1c7010a619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:30:23 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 110 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 920aedba..9d7bd322 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,113 @@ +Version 2.11.0 - March 2, 2013 + +- Update kernel file names signifying changes. +- Update a pool's last work time when the work is popped as well as staged. +- API always report failed send() replies +- Update diff stale: total and pools when stratum throws away shares +- Keep stratum connections open for 2 minutes after the last work item was +staged to allow stray shares to be submitted on pool switching. +- Try to extract the sessionid associated with mining.notify on 3rd level array +and submit it along with the userid to support mining resume, failing gracefully +and restarting if the pool rejects it. +- Speed up watchdog interval and therefore display updates to 2 seconds. +- Update copyright dates. +- Cope with misread sessionid on stratum for now. +- Use constants from the array of __constants throughout the diablo kernel. +- Create a __constant array for use within diablo kernel. +- Fix --benchmark generating valid work for cgminer. +- Use the sessionid as passed on stratum connect to attempt to resume a +connection once and then clear it if it fails, to use a new connection. +- Move to storing the nonce1 in the work struct instead of the sessionid for the +now defunct first draft mining.resume protocol. +- Use global constant arrays for all other constants used in scrypt kernel. +- Use global __constants for sha functions in scrypt kernel. +- Use constants for endian swap macros. +- Revise scrypt kernel copyright notice. +- Separate out additions in scrypt kernel. +- Reuse some Vals[] variables that can be assigned to constants earlier in the +poclbm kernel, making for fewer ops. +- Put all constants used in poclbm kernel into __const memory array to speed up +concurrent reads on the wavefront. +- BFL stop 1st init command if no device +- Add a get_queued function for devices to use to retrieve work items from the +queued hashtable. +- Bugfix: Duplicate stratum sessionid when copying work, to avoid double-free +- Bugfix: Missing pool_no parameter to applog for no-stratum-sessionid debug +message +- Add the choice of hash loop to the device driver, defaulting to hash_sole_work +if none is specified. +- Add comments. +- Add a driver specific flush_work for queued devices that may have work items +already queued to abort working on them on the device and discard them. +- Flush queued work on a restart from the hash database and discard the work +structs. +- Create a central point for removal of work items completed by queued device +drivers. +- Create a fill_queue function that creates hashtables of as many work items as +is required by the device driver till it flags the queue full. +- Create the hash queued work variant for use with devices that are fast enough +to require a queue. +- Update copyright year. +- Fix tv_lastupdate being made into tv_end and update the hashmeter on cycle, +not opt_log_interval. +- Fix tv_lastupdate being made into tv_end and update the hashmeter on cycle, +not opt_log_interval. +- Only continue submitting shares with mining.resume support on stratum when the +session id matches. +- Provide support for mining.resume with stratum, currently re-authorising after +successful resumption pending finalising of the protocol process. +- Provide basic framework for restarting stratum depending on whether resume +support exists or not. +- Abstract out the setting up of the stratum curl socket. +- Free sessionid in clean_work and remove redundant setting of strings to NULL +since the whole work struct is zeroed. +- Only clear stratum shares mandatorily on stratum dropouts when the pool does +not support resume. +- Try resubmitting stratum shares every 5 seconds for up to 2 minutes if the +pool session id exists and matches on failure to submit. +- Do as much outside of mutex locking of sshare_lock as possible. +- Remove last reference to struct work used outside the sshare_lock in +submit_work_thread +- Unlock the sshare_lock in submit_work_thread when all references to work and +sshare are complete. +- Add timestamps to stratum_share structs as they're generated and copy the +stratum sessionid if it exists to stratum work generated. +- Store session id for stratum if the pool supports it for future mining.resume +support. +- API.java allow partial reads +- debug_cb buffer type warning +- MMQ rewrite the last of the old scanhash loop and drastically reduce CPU +- hash_sole_work can be static +- Make the numbuf larger to accept larger scrypt parameters. +- Keep the unique id of each work item across copy_work to prevent multiple work +items having the same id. +- Abstract out the main hashing loop to allow us to use a separate loop for +devices that are fast enough to require queued work. +- Provide a noop thread_enable function for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a noop thread_shutdown function for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a noop hw_error function for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a noop prepare_work for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a noop thread_init for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a noop can_limit_work for devices that don't support it. +- Provide a noop thread_prepare function for drivers that don't use +thread_prepare. +- Use blank_get_statline_before for GPU devices that don't support adl +monitoring. +- Provide a noop get_stats function for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a blank get_statline for drivers that don't support it. +- Provide a blank get_statline_before function for drivers that don't have one. +- Fill drivers missing reinit_device with a noop version. +- add 'count' to cumstomsummarypage 'calc' +- hotplug use get_thread() where appropriate +- convert sleep(const) to nmsleep() +- remove empty #ifdef +- call a separate get_devices() with locking, as required +- usbutils - avoid free cgusb twice +- usbutils hotplug v0.1 +- Report USB nodev as ZOMBIE on the screen +- Change file modes. + + Version 2.10.5 - February 7, 2013 - Fix logic fail on partial writes with stratum send that was leading to corrupt