From 78a608713f8574812bd9fd21a38bb6881efaf044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:02:41 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS for 3.0 release. --- NEWS | 175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 175 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 51f44f17..a637f997 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,178 @@ +Version 3.0.0 - April 22nd, 2013 + +- Remove all CPU mining code. +- compile on win32 +- Update SCRYPT README with improved hashrates for 7970. +- Use copy_time helper throughout cgminer.c +- Provide wrappers for commonly used timer routines with API stats. +- Avoid one cgtime call in sole_hash_work. +- Fulltest is true if value is <= target. +- Use system host to endian functions for clarity in fulltest. +- Provide endian_flipX functions to avoid special casing big endian in cgminer.c +- Provide a flip128 helper to simplify big endian flipping. +- Use flip helpers to simplify code for calculation of midstate. +- Use flip32 function instead of open coding it in gen_stratum_work. +- Move util.c exports to util.h +- Fix warning on building avalon on win32 +- Use cgtime in driver-avalon.c +- Use cgtime in driver-icarus.c +- Use cgtime in driver-bitforce.c +- Use cgtime in logging.c +- Use cgtime in usbutils.c +- Use cgtime in driver-opencl.c +- Use cgtime wrapper in driver-modminer.c +- Use cgtime in driver-ztex.c +- Use cgtime in compat.h +- Use cgtime instead of gettimeofday in fpgautils.c +- Replace gettimeofday usage in cgminer.c with cgtime +- Create a cgminer specific gettimeofday wrapper that is always called with tz +set to NULL and increases the resolution on windows. +- Add high resolution to nmsleep wrapper on windows. +- Set default ocl work size for scrypt to 256. +- define le32toh if needed +- fliter out the wrong result from adjust fan code +- compile avalon driver on win32 and win64 +- Restart threads on the rare chance we found the block ourselves. +- Add more FAQs about crossfire. +- Set last device valid work on adding device. +- Increment last device valid work count in submit_nonce to cover scrypt. +- Set opt_scrypt drv max diff for correctness. +- Make scrypt submission use the submit_nonce code, with nonces matching +endianness. +- Do testing for HW errors on submit nonce for both scrypt and sha. +- Increment hardware error count from the one site. +- Rename scrypt regenhash function for consistency. +- Add new best share info to verbose logging. +- Add notice for when network diff is changed. +- Convert error getting device IDs in ocl code to info log level only since +multiple platforms may be installed and the error is harmless there. +- Unnecessary extra array in ocl code. +- Further driver FAQs. +- Add MAC FAQ. +- Add more FAQ details. +- Check for work restart after disable in the hash queued work loop since it may +be a long time before we re-enable a device. +- Unconditionally test for many wrong results on avalon and reset to avoid +passing a corrupt avalon result to temperature code. +- build out of source dir +- Set device_diff for queued work or there will be no diff1 share count. +- Only reset an avalon device with no results when there are no results +consecutively. +- More FAQs. +- More FAQs. +- Cleanup when stratum curl fails to initialise. +- Avoid applog in recalloc_sock. +- Avoid applog under stratum_lock in recv_line. +- Avoid applog under stratum_lock in __stratum_send. +- Put spacing around locking in util.c for clarity. +- Avoid applog under cg_wlock. +- Put spacing around locking code for clarity. +- Avoid applog under pool_lock. +- Avoid more recursive locks. +- Avoid applog while ch_lock is held. +- Avoid recursive locks in fill_queue. +- Variable is already initialised in global scope. +- More GPU faqs. +- More README faqs. +- Yet more README faqs. +- Add more faqs to README. +- Merge branch 'master' into avalon-dev +- Wrap result wrong tests in avalon scanhash in unlikely() and only consider a +hash count of zero wrong if a restart wasn't issued. +- avalon: if result_wrong >= get_work_count jump out the read loop +- Fix warning on 32bit. +- Fix warning on 32bit. +- Avoid curl_easy_cleanup on old curl versions in setup_stratum_curl as well. +- fix the fan control on max temp2/3 +- for some reason network down. one simple cgminer command: "cgminer -o +127.0.0.1:8888 -O fa:ke --avalon-options 115200:32:10:50:256" can idle the +avalon for safe power and protect chip +- if hash_count == 0; reinit avalon, fix the 0MHS bug use the max value of temp1 +and temp2 for fan control +- Reinstate the matching_work_count per subdevice on avalon based on the work +subid. +- Avalon driver is missing the drv_id. +- Rationalise and simplify the share diff and block solve detection to a common +site. +- Rationalise and simplify the share diff and block solve detection to a common +site. +- Make the avalon array size a macro. +- Use replacement of work items in the avalon buffer as needed instead of +flushing them. +- Reinstate wrong work count to reset avalon regardless and display number of +wrong results. +- Revert "The result_wrong measurement for avalon is continually leading to +false positives so remove it." +- select() on serial usb in avalon does not work properly with zero timeout. +- The result_wrong measurement for avalon is continually leading to false +positives so remove it. +- Revert "Use only 2 queued work arrays in avalon." +- Use no timeout on further reads in avalon_gets +- Do sequential reads in avalon_get_reset to cope with partial reads. +- Show read discrepancy in avalon_get_reset. +- Reuse avalon_get_work_count variable. +- Check for AVA_GETS_RESTART when deciding if avalon has messed up. +- Make the detection of all wrong results on avalon much more conservative to +avoid false positives on work restarts. +- Show error codes on select and read fail in avalon. +- If we get a restart message in avalon_gets still check if there's a receive +message to parse first without a timeout before returning AVA_GETS_RESTART. +- Use only 2 queued work arrays in avalon. +- avalon_gets is always called from the one call site so inline it. +- The read_count is unused by the avalon get result code and no longer required +for avalon reset so simplify code removing it. +- Use a separate avalon_get_reset function for resetting avalon instead of using +avalon_get_result. +- The current hash count returned by avalon scanhash is just an obfuscated +utility counter so make it explicit. +- Check for a restart before a timeout in message parsing code in avalon. +- We should check for a restart message before checking for a timeout in avalon +scanhash. +- Store the subid for the work item in avalon. +- usbutils more stats for bflsc +- Fix record_temp_fan function in avalon driver. Patch by Xiangfu + +- Remove inappropriate memset of struct avalon result which was corrupting fan +values. +- Fix warning with no curses built in. +- Bump version to 2.11.4 +- Fix warning with no curses built in. +- Bump version to 2.11.4 +- Add API support for Avalon. +- Only do_avalon_close once on multiple errors. +- Reset the result_wrong count on block change in avalon scanhash to prevent +false positives for all nonces failed. +- Small timeouts on select() instead of instant timeout increase reliability of +socket reads and writes. +- Only get extra work in fill_queue if we don't have any unqueued work in the +list. +- Small timeouts on select() instead of instant timeout increase reliability of +socket reads and writes. +- Rotate the avalon work array and free work on AVA_SEND_BUFFER_EMPTY as well. +- Only get extra work in fill_queue if we don't have any unqueued work in the +list. +- Don't get any work if our queue is already full in avalon_fill. +- Differentiate socket closed from socket error in recv_line. +- Differentiate socket closed from socket error in recv_line. +- Free avalon->works in the event we call avalon_prepare on failure to +initialise. +- Fix warnings. +- Create an array of 4 lots of work for avalon and cycle through them. +- Remove unused per unit matching work count for avalon. +- Rename the confusing avalon_info pointer. +- Simplify avalon scanhash code using the new find_queued_work_bymidstate +function. Partially works only. +- Members of cgpu_info for avalon are not meant to be in the union. +- Use correct struct device_drv for avalon_drv. +- cgminer.c -S help to only say Icarus +- Check enough work is queued before queueing more in avalon_fill. +- Actually put the work in the avalon queue. +- Rneame avalon_api to avalon_drv. +- First draft of port of avalon driver to new cgminer queued infrastructure. +- Add Makefile entry for driver-avalon. +- Add configure support for avalon. + + Version 2.11.4 - April 5th, 2013 - Remove bfl-sc option from configure for 2.11 branch.