From ae044ec31ea64b6609939da18196200aa489bb71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:02:22 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2979df25..631ae6b9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,43 @@ Version 2.2.0 +NOTE: GPU Device order will change with this release with ATI GPUs as cgminer +now can enumerate them according to their Bus ID which means the values should +now correlate with their physical position on the motherboard. + +- Default to poclbm kernel on Tahiti (7970) since phatk does not work, even +though performance is sub-standard so that at least it will mine successfully by +defau +- Retain cl program after every possible place we might build the program. +- Update ADL SDK URL. +- Fix potential overflow. +- Map GPU devices to virtual devices in their true physical order based on +BusNumber. +- Change the warning that comes with failure to init cl on a device to be more +generic and accurate. +- Advertise longpoll support in X-Mining-Extensions +- Detect dual GPU cards by iterating through all GPUs, finding ones without +fanspeed and matching twins with fanspeed one bus ID apart. +- Do not attempt to build the program that becomes the kernel twice. This could +have been leading to failures on initialising cl. +- Some opencl compilers have issues with no spaces after -D in the compiler +options. +- Allow intensity up to 14. +- Use calloced stack memory for CompilerOptions to ensure sprintf writes to the +beginning of the char. +- Whitelist 79x0 cards to prefer no vectors as they perform better without. +- Adjust fan speed gently while in the optimal range when temperature is +drifting to minimise overshoot in either direction. +- Detect dual GPU cards via the indirect information of - 1st card has a fan +controller. 2nd card does not have a fan controller, cards share the same device +name +- Instead of using the BFI_INT patching hack on any device reporting +cl_amd_media_ops, create a whitelist of devices that need it. This should enable +GCN architec +- Fixed API compiling issue on OS X +- Add more explanation of JSON format and the 'save' command +- Return an error if using ADL API commands when it's not available +- Read off lpThermalControllerInfo from each ADL device. +- Add ADL_Overdrive5_ThermalDevices_Enum interface. - Add API commands: config, switchpool, gpu settings, save - Implement socks4 proxy support. - Fix send() for JSON strings