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BFGMiner Version 5.5.0 - January 3, 2018
- Update official Win32/64 build compiler and libraries:
- - Win64 compiler (GCC) from 5.3.0 to 7.2.0 (Win32 remains at 4.7.4)
- - c-ares from 1.10.0-r1 to 1.11.0
- - libjansson from 2.7 to 2.10
- - libcurl from 7.47.1 to 7.57.0
- - libevent from 2.1.5-r4 to 2.1.8
- - libusb from 1.0.20 to 1.0.21
- - libmicrohttpd from 0.9.48 to 0.9.58
- - zlib from 1.2.8-r1 to 1.2.11-r1
- Update copyrights
- AUTHORS: Update
- README.ASIC: Update Alcheminer
- alchemist: Reset using DTR as well
- alchemist: Experimental USB->UART Dongle Support on RPi
- make-release: Add crypt32.dll to OS-provided library list
- README: Expand on --set-device documentation
- Update libblkmaker to 0.6.0
- openwrt: Update for LEDE 17.01
- ccan: Update to latest version (which fixes musl libc support)
- Bugfix: probe_device_thread: Fix threadname buffer size
- Bugfix: appdata_file_call: Fix buffer size and loop
- Bugfix: SSM: Clear desired_default_share_pdiff when initialising
desired_share_pdiff before authentication
- cpu: Avoid relocations for x86_64 assembly that interfere with building
BFGMiner as a PIE
- Bugfix: SSM: We already hold the pool lock when we need to call stale_work,
so avoid trying to lock it a second time inside the function
- Bugfix: Hold the control lock when updating the generate-to script
- Bugfix: Hold the pool lock when updating lp_id
- Bugfix: icarus: Explicitly specify type wide enough for bitshift in
icarus_proc_for_nonce
- configure: BFG_FIND_INCLUDE_PATH: Handle more unusual syntax correctly
- Bugfix: SSM: Handle network problems safely, and use thread-safe libevent
BFGMiner Version 5.4.2 - March 26, 2016
- Update official Win32/64 build compiler and libraries:
- - Win64 compiler (GCC) from 4.7.4 to 5.3.0 (Win32 remains at 4.7.4)
- - libcurl from 7.39.0 to 7.47.1
- - libevent from 2.0.21 to 2.1.5-r4
- - libusb from 1.0.18 (Win32) and 1.0.19 (Win64) to 1.0.20
- - libmicrohttpd from 0.9.38_pre33603 to 0.9.48
- Update libblkmaker to 0.5.3
- Bugfix: Sanitise lock situation for work2d
- Bugfix: SSM: Never issue the same work2d twice in a row
- Bugfix: SSM: Never send mining.notify for stale work2d
- SSM: Refactor work2d check and job pruning from _stratumsrv_update_notify
into stratumsrv_update_notify_str
- Updates for OpenWrt 15.05
- Bugfix: Correct work2d handling for GBT servers
BFGMiner Version 5.4.1 - November 21, 2015
- bitmain: Use more portable PRIu64 rather than %llu (which fails on Windows)
- icarus: Use more portable PRIu64 rather than %llu (which fails on Windows)
- Bugfix: openwrt: Fix bitmain option
- Bugfix: antminer: Avoid strstr(NULL, ...) when device has no [available]
product string
- Update libblkmaker to 0.5.2
- openwrt: Add option to enable bitmain driver
- openwrt: Update libusb device list
BFGMiner Version 5.4.0 - October 23, 2015
- AUTHORS: Move jstefanop to current maintainers
- Disable alchemist by default, add Travis build, and document configure option
in README
- alchemist: New scrypt ASIC driver
- hashfast: Support setting clock speed from TUI Manage
- avalon: Support setting clock speed from TUI Manage
- antminer: Support setting clock speed from TUI Manage (hidden for non-BM1382/4
devices)
- jingtian: Allow changing clock speed from TUI
- Debuglog for retrodiff being disabled
- Disable retrodiff when it was not explicitly enabled, and the pool doesn't
seem to like it
- Bugfix: Only adjust work_difficulty on retrodiff submissions, so we can still
detect them on rejection
- (Re-)enable retrodiff by default for stratum pools, since some servers
implement mining.set_difficulty wrong in this way
- New pool option "retrodiff"
- If a share passes difficulty check for the updated pool target, record that
target for correct accounting of diff_stale.
- DevAPI: Remove unused temporary variable from driver iteration
- README.ASIC: Expand Antminer S5 section to S1-S5 for completeness, since in
theory they should work
- bitmain: Make reg_data optional for S4 and S5, calculating it from clock
- Document Bitmain Antminer S5 support
- bitmain: Remove poll_prio_threshold and just ensure we poll at a regular
interval to avoid nonce buffer overruns
- bitmain: Remove dead per-device constants
- bitmain: Only have one set of actual maximums
- bitmain: Migrate BITMAIN_MAX_NONCE_NUM to runtime packet_max_nonce
- bitmain: Migrate BITMAIN_MAX_WORK_QUEUE_NUM/bitmain_work_poll_prio to runtime
poll_prio_threshold
- bitmain: Migrate BITMAIN_MAX_WORK_NUM to runtime packet_max_work
- bitmain: Dummy model parameter
- bitmain: Remove baud/flush, as the fake VCOM kernel driver ignores (and
complains about) both
- bitmain: Poll after queuing work, once enough is queued
- bitmain: Sleep a little between polling
- bitmain: Flush queues for work restarts
- bitmain: Queue multiple works at a time
- bitmain: Remove more dead code
- bitmain: Prune old work eventually
- Bugfix: bitmain: Properly count work-search failures as HW errors
- bitmain: Refactor to work with minerloop_queue (leaks work memory)
- bitmain: Avoid busy-looping on network devices
- bitmain: Support for talking to a device over the network
- bitmain: Use the hottest reading for device temperature
- Bugfix: bitmain: Actually use baud setting
- bitmain: Remove more dead code
- bitmain: Handle stale results normally
- bitmain: Simplify num2bit
- bitmain: Initial set-device based configuration
- bitmain: Use lowl-vcom abstractions
- Update copyrights
- Bugfix: bitmain: Type-safe printf-format usage
- Travis: Test bitmain-only build
- Build bitmain driver
- bitmain: Hardcode configuration for now
- bitmain: Rework nonce_diff handling
- bitmain: Update headers
- bitmain: Deal with unused variable warnings sanely
- bitmain: Explicitly de-const device_path for freeing
- Bugfix: bitmain: Correct type of cgpu->temp reference
- Bugfix: bitmain: Use uint8_t consistently for binary data
- Bugfix: bitmain: Clear opt_bitmain_dev string properly
- bitmain: Remove non-existent bitmain_detect parameter
- bitmain: Cleanup unnecessary code
- bitmain: Use uthash to find queued work
- bitmain: Implement inc_dev_status within record_temp_fan
- bitmain: Remove non-applicable limits
- bitmain: Remove obsolete get_statline_before function
- bitmain: Move g_miner_version to bitmain_info struct
- bitmain: Remove direct USB code
- bitmain: Update driver registration
- bitmain: Update symbol names
- bitmain: Remove dead code
- bitmain: Replace custom hexdump with normal bin2hex
- bitmain: Get network difficulty from first work task
- bitmain: No-op htole8
- bitmain: Simulate cgminer work_block somewhat
- bitmain: Update bin2hex usage for malloc-free version
- bitmain: Copy low-level code from Bitmain cgminer usbutils
- Copy working driver-bitmain.c from Bitmain's cgminer at commit
4ecf89341657ea7efecdf588586ca3f068ab17ab
- Add api_add_percent to miner.h
- Bugfix: DevAPI: Update includes from uthash to utlist and support older
versions of uthash
- Bugfix: RPC: Need to include utlist.h for config file list
- Bugfix: antminer: Avoid NULL dereference for non-BM1382/4 devices
- README.ASIC: Update documentation for BM1382/4 clock calculation support
- antminer: Support for setting BM1382/4 clock by frequency MHz
- Bugfix: Keep JSON from getaccountaddress around long enough for debug messages
- Bugfix: Run gen-version.sh from source directory
- Fix to enable building into directory out of source tree
- Bugfix: Clean up JSON from getaccountaddress
- Bugfix: Do not use hash tables for driver lists, since they require unique
keys
- Pool option #cksuggest to use CKPool-compatible mining.suggest_difficulty
- RPC: Add "Rotate Period" to config
- RPC: Extend setconfig to change strategy
- Allow setting strategy by name
- bitforce: Enable changing voltage from the Manage TUI
- avalonmm: Use proc_set_device_tui_wrapper instead of avalonmm_tui_wrapper
- DevAPI: Add generic proc_set_device_tui_wrapper
- bitforce: Add "voltage" setting to send V?X commands
- Bugfix: compac: Set dname so assignments match
- README.RPC: Add missing setconfig|stratum-port documentation
- README.RPC: Add missing setconfig|http-port documentation
- Bugfix: lowl-vcom: Check for tcgetattr/tcsetattr/tcflush failure
- configure: List compac driver in output
- Travis: Workaround Travis bug
- configure: Use AC_PROG_SED to find sed
BFGMiner Version 5.3.0 - September 5, 2015
- README.ASIC: Compac docs
- antminer: Explicit support for GekkoScience's Compac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner
- icarus: Use all null padding when probing work division (BM1384 reacts
strangely - using part as start nonce?)
- antminer: Match Product strings including "Antminer"
- Bugfix: icarus: Never set timeout to 0, since it disables the timeout
altogether
BFGMiner Version 5.2.0 - June 5, 2015
- Upgraded Windows hidapi library from 0.8.0_pre20130121 to 0.8.0_rc1_p20140719
- Update bundled libbase58 to 0.1.4
- README.ASIC: Document usage with AntMiner U3
- icarus: Include ns/hash estimates for each nonce result, in debug logging
- icarus: Cleanup dev vs proc repr in logging
- Bugfix: update_block_display: Ensure we have console lock, and avoid rare
relock when resizing windows inside curses_print_status
- gitmodules: Change libblkmaker URI to use GitHub since Gitorious is defunct
- Bugfix: DevAPI: Avoid infinite hang in set_device help
- bitforce: Wait until pre-initialisation jobs all flush completely before
starting to avoid sanity check issues
- bitforce: Wait to clear job queue (at init) until we have actually opened the
device
- bitforce: Remove unnecessary delay
- Bugfix: vcom: Avoid overflowing cc_t before division to deciseconds
- Bugfix: bitforce: Ensure hashes_done is called for every completed job
- antminer: Adapt default configuration to work with U3 as well as U1/U2
- antminer: Add U3 voltage setting (x??? format only for now)
- antminer: getstatus needs to read a result for every chip, but we don't use
the output anyway, so just skip it
- icarus: Modify work division detection packet to be compatible with Antminer
U3
- icarus: Replace decisecond-precision read_count with read_timeout_ms
(millisecond precision) to handle faster devices like the Antminer U3 that
complete works in under 1ds
- lowl-vcom: vcom_set_timeout_ms function (increases precision to ms on Windows
only)
- util: timer_remaining_us function
- configure: Improve path finding macro to work with more possible CPP output
- configure: Macroify header path search
- Reduce HTTP request failure log level to DEBUG since it often occurs probing
stratum pools
- Bugfix: DevAPI: Guarantee set_device functions never get passed a NULL pointer
for newvalue
- Always update block display after pool display in case of username wrapping
around
- icarus: Pass device representation to icarus_{gets,write} so logging can use
it rather than fd numbers
- Bugfix: icarus: Check for impossibly fast hw errors (and don't report Eh/s
when they occur)
- Bugfix: icarus: Avoid a race with watchdog applying settings by setting
device_data before add_cgpu
- RPC: Clean up api_add_* somewhat
- Bugfix: util: Fix is_power_of_two
- Port antminer driver to use set_device_funcs
BFGMiner Version 5.1.0 - February 19, 2015
- Fix broken driver options in configure script
- Bugfix: extract_domain: Correctly handle query/fragment in URI without path
- kncasic: Do flush!
- kncasic: avoid duplicate nonces to be reported
- kncasic: Fix logging levels
- kncasic: Neptune-compatible API interface for enabling/disabling dies
- kncasic: Use one bfgminer processor per die (not per core)
- Update libblkmaker to 0.5.1
- Titan: Lower log level when reconfiguring dies
- Titan: does not need SHA256d algo
- Titan: lower log level for flush messages
- Titan: adjust log levels in knc_titan_get_info
- get_master_rolling_hashrate -> get_proc_rolling_hashrate
- Update webconfig code to latest BFGMiner
- allow url based config files
- kncasic: Fix "double free" error
- kncasic: We need to free queued work to avoid memory leaks
- Bugfix: minion: Don't try to add 0-chip devices
- configure: Avoid BASHisms for better portability
BFGMiner Version 5.0.0 - November 29, 2014
- opencl: Fail gracefully if clGetProgramInfo/CL_PROGRAM_NUM_DEVICES returns
zero
- opencl: Remember results of global offset testing
- opencl: Only save kernel binary when we built from source
- opencl: Only try to patch BFI_INT when compiling a kernel from source
- opencl: Major refactor, splitting up opencl_load_kernel into many new
functions
- titan: Initialise variables to satisfy compilers
- Bugfix: opencl: Correctly handle non-goffset kernels
- Fixing column spacing of non-curses device output
- Bugfix: opencl: free memory if clState creation fails
- Titan: Do not do actual configuration job in API thread context. Instead, send
commands to the worker thread to do the actual job.
- Titan: bugfix: dies are not configured if die#0 is OFF
- Titan: unused function argument
- Titan: unused variables
- Update knc-asic: Titan FPGA image with spi->i2c commands removed and fixed
some lock-up scenarios
- Titan code rework: Use one bfgminer processor per die (instead of core)
- minion: Reinitialise chips if they don't seem to be progressing
- minion: Read temperature sensor
- minion: TUI clock speed control
- minion: Include "Frequency" in RPC status
- minion: Add "clock" setting
- minion: Set configuration parameters we care about
- minion: Reset chip at initialization
- minion: Configure PLL to 900 MHz at startup
- minion: Report hashes done as accurately as we can
- minion: Core enable/disable control
- minion: Implement queue flushing
- minion: Implement basic mining
- lowl-spi: linux_spi_txrx2 to include device protocol dumping
- minion: Detection code for the Prospero X1
- Actually add version.c file
- Only rebuild a minimal version.c file when git commit changes
- Bugfix: Use HASH_ADD_KEYPTR for const char *, not HASH_ADD_STR
- Bugfix: Re-lock stgd_lock when we don't have a malgo-specific pool to use
- scrypt: Disable OpenCL by default
- opencl: Remove support for "OCL1" kernel define (indicated OpenCL 1.1+)
- opencl: Autodetect whether global offset actually works
- opencl: Add no-goffset support to scrypt kernels
- opencl: Determine kernel support for goffset by code analysis
- opencl: Add "goffset" setting to override detection of support for global work
offsets
- util: seek_data_cb: Check validity of offset
- Allow libcurl to rewind the upload buffer
- cpu: Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
- cpu: Use _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF instead of _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
- cpu: Do not set thread affinity on single-processor systems
- Adding additional boolean keywords enable and disable
- AUTHORS: Move Pelle and Vitalii to "Current Maintainers" since they actively
maintain the Titan driver
- AUTHORS: Add Ronny Van Keer (Keccak C implementation)
- Titan: supply its own rolling hashrate implementation
- A driver can supply its own rolling hashrate function (in case generic
rolling hashrate implementation does not work)
- Bugfix: configure: kncasic does not actually need i2c-tools
- Keccak: Simplify keccak_hash_data
- keccak: Adapt opencl intensity interpretation to have approximately the same
desktop interactivity affect as SHA256d
- Keccak: Include support in various builds
- Travis: Update with Keccak
- opencl/keccak: Add non-goffset support
- opencl/keccak: Unroll all the hash rounds properly
- opencl: Add Keccak support via "fullheader" kernel interface
- keccak: Adapt for BFGMiner
- Keccak: Import algorithm code as-is
- opencl: Add a simple "fullheader" kernel interface
- Update stratum mining.capabilities method to use a single Object for all
parameters
- Bugfix: Correct USE_SHA256D macro name to ensure SHA256d is always preferred
as default algorithm
- cpu: Generic scanhash that can support any PoW algorithm
- RPC: Include Hash Method in minecoin for new algorithms
- opencl: Teach findnonce to behave based on kernel interface rather than mining
algorithm
- opencl: Get min_nonce_diff from struct mining_algorithm
- Move malgo-specific code to dedicated source files
- opencl: Simplify kernel-specific data handling
- Update knc-asic: Fix issue with detect_die crashing due to errors in response
- titan: Init last_nonce on die reconfiguration to avoid lots of "unknown work"
messages
- Bugfix: titan: Extra garbage was sent on SPI with new commands
- titan: Remove temporary log messages for manual report checks
- titan: Wrong variable used in new per-die iteration
- titan: Do manual core checks in parallel with normal ones
- titan: Fix: Only one die was checked after flush in last commit
- titan: Manually check all cores for reports after flush
- opencl: Remove redundant checks for USE_OPENCL
- cpu: Remove redundant checks for USE_CPUMINING
- opencl: Only attempt to BFI_INT patch SHA256d kernels
- Significantly rewrite configure script to handle driver dependencies cleaner
- Make SHA256d mining optional
- Bugfix: cointerra: Can handle nonces down to pdiff 1
- kncasic: Initialise first_cgpu to silence false warning
- Bugfix: Clarify goffset decision code, and refuse to compile kernels in
situations where they won't work
- Bugfix: opencl: Output buffer must be readable by kernel since it is used with
a count/position iterator
- Bugfix: opencl: Skip NULL kernel interface entry
- DevAPI: hashes_done: Simplify and improve precision of max_nonce calculation
- opencl: Avoid duplicating kernel_interfaces mapping in select_kernel
- opencl: Avoid duplicating kernel_interfaces mapping in
opencl_scanhash_get_kernel
- cpu: Drivers should not be doing fulltest on their own, so remove it
- cpu: Pass full work struct to scanhash functions
- kncasic: Split up each ASIC channel to its own device
- kncasic: Use consistent naming for KNC_MAX_DIES_PER_CORE
- kncasic: Refactoring: coreid is not used, remove it
- kncasic: Refactoring: put all device architecture defines in one place (knc-asic.h)
- kncasic: Add lock to protect concurrent accesses to knc_state
- kncasic: Fix auto
- Build system fixes for kncasic driver
- configure: Deduplicate Linux i2c-dev.h checks for KnCMiner drivers
- Travis: Update for kncasic driver
- kncasic: Only show the relevant die for RPC stats
- kncasic: Use proc_repr for logging
- kncasic: Split up logical processors
- kncasic: Silence warning about unhandled enumeration values
- Bugfix: kncasic: Proper format specifications
- kncasic: Remove unused code
- kncasic: Minimal changes to get it compiling
- kncasic: Import gen 2 driver from cgminer commit
bc153552be8591250cb3214bf5202501d4a39922
- titan: Move thread_reportin() call to poll function
- titan: reportin every process_report to avoid falsely tripping the watchdog
- titan: Remove unused variables
- Bump knc-asic submodule
- titan: Increase FPGA to ASIC SPI frequency to 6 MHz
- titan: Use new get_work_status prototype and print FPGA CRC error counters to
log
- Titan flush optimization fix: Don't send get_info commands when FPGA is
speaking to ASIC
- titan: All dies use same nonce working range
- Titan flush optimization bugfix: FPGA status was checked once per poll instead
of once per ASIC
- Titan flush optimization: Bugfix: Flush time measurement only worked with one
ASIC
- Titan flush optimization: Point knc-asic submodule to include new FPGA image
- Titan flush optimization: Remove temporary debug messages
- Titan flush optimization: Keep works in local queue until slot number is
reused
- Titan flush optimization: Point knc-asic submodule to needed revision
- Titan flush optimization: Measure new flush time
- Titan flush optimization: Send works to all dies after flush
- Titan flush optimization: First rough implementation
- Titan: Less clobber on the screen: group some "failure" messages
- Bugfix: Prefer not using work created just to ensure a specific algorithm is
queued, so strategies work as much as possible
- Stratum: Enable mining.set_goal to change parameters on the current goal
- cpu: Fail gracefully if unsupported mining algo gets into scanhash
- opencl: Fail gracefully if unsupported mining algo gets into
opencl_scanhash_get_kernel
- SSM: Send goal malgo to goal-enabled clients
- Allow pools with #change_goal_malgo attribute to change the mining algorithm
used by their assigned goal
- Gracefully fail when no pool can be found to generate specific-algo work
- Remove opt_scrypt
- dualminer: Replace opt_scrypt with a per-device "scrypt" option
- dualminer: Make dual_mode a per-device option as it should be
- opencl: Nearly complete migration to per-work mining algorithms
- pool_actively_desired: If we are the highest priority, workable pool for a
given algorithm, we are needed
- Ignore opt_queue for unused mining algorithms
- Set name and aliases on mining algorithms
- When hotplug is enabled and a mining algorithm is configured for the first
time, schedule a rescan of hardware to pick up anything now applicable that may
not have been before
- Try to keep enough work queued for each mining algorithm in use
- Move select_loadbalance and select_failover logic into their own functions
- Keep track of how much work is staged per-algorithm
- Keep track of how many goals reference each mining algorithm
- Abstract goal_set_malgo function
- Build a mining_algorithms list
- get_work: Restore previous getwork rollntime behaviour
- get_work: Only return work items compatible with processor (degrades getwork
rollntime support)
- opencl: Support for per-work mining algorithms
- Build without POW_SCRYPT at all
- opencl: Defer loading kernel until it is needed
- opencl: Split initCl into opencl_create_clState and opencl_load_kernel
- SSM: Implement mining.capabilities including proxying mining.set_goal
- Replace mining.goal.subscribe with mining.capabilities
- Stratum: Avoid resetting the goal if the old and new name match
- Allow specifying goal options as eg, --pool-goal name:malgo=scrypt
- cpu: Support for per-work mining algorithms
- Replace cgpu.min_nonce_diff with drv.drv_min_nonce_diff(cgpu, malgo)
- proxy: Avoid assumptions about mining algorithm at initialisation
- Core only: Partially move most of opt_scrypt to mining_goal
- opencl: Reintroduce independent intensity setting internally
- Move MAX_*_INTENSITY stuff to driver-opencl.h
- proxy: Minimise minimum difficulty for proxy clients
- Enable --generate-to option (was --coinbase-addr) to work with non-default
goals
- Save pool goals in written config files
- README: Update documentation for multiple blockchain support
- RPC: Add "Difficulty Accepted" to "coin" command
- RPC: Add "Mining Goal" to "pools" command
- RPC: Accept an additional argument for "addpool" to indicate mining goal by
name
- Stratum: Support for mining.set_goal("goal name") - currently just resetting
the user-configured goal
- Teach longpoll logic about multiple mining goals
- RPC: Include non-default goals in reply to "coin" command
- Ignore generation address/script on pools using non-default mining goals
- Only include block display lines for active goals
- Move income to block display line, and show extra block display lines for each
additional mining goal
- New --pool-goal option to set a distinct named goal per-pool
- Parameterise most references to global mining_goal_info
- Move block_time to be per block_info
- Show "?" for income if block height is unknown
- Move block height tracking onto block_info
- Calculate current_fullhash only when needed (for RPC 'coins')
- Replace current_block_id with blkchain->currentblk[->block_id]
- Move current_hash to goal->current_goal_detail
- Clean up struct block_info names
- Use full prevblock hash as block key (also gets rid of dead code)
- Move global variables related to the blockchain or mining goals on to global
structs
BFGMiner Version 4.10.1 - November 29, 2014
- Upgraded Windows libcurl from 7.38.0 to 7.39.0
- Bugfix: bytes_free: Set buf to NULL so the bytes_t is reusable
- Bugfix: minergate: Avoid malloc(0) if stats file has too few values
- Bugfix: modminer: Avoid leaking devname when detecting claimed devices
- Bugfix: free memory allocated for config file loading/writing
- Bugfix: nanofury: Avoid NULL pointer dereference on init failure
- Bugfix: varint_decode: Correctly decode multibyte numbers
- cpu: Fix processor count detection with HW_NCPU
- cpu: SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH can only be used with sched_priority 0
- cpu: fix sched_setaffinity parameter : sizeof(cpu_set_t)
- Bugfix: opencl: Correctly accept negative intensities and set dynamic
intensity without changing current value
- Since longpoll connections are never reused, explicitly forbid reuse so
libcurl cleans them up immediately
- Bugfix: Correct already-in-use getcbaddr message
- Demote some Bitfury debug log messages to only with device protocol dumping
- Update bundled libbase58 to 0.1.3
- README.ASIC: Minor cleanups to Zeusminer section
- README.ASIC: Explain Zeusminer options
- Makefile: Specify .cl files explicitly, and only include scrypt ones when
configured with scrypt support
- Bugfix: DevAPI: hashes_done: Explicitly cast to uint64_t for big calculations
(LLVM was allowing overflow)
- Bugfix: titan: First core in each die got too big nonce area to work on
- Travis: Build MinGW64 with ncurses
- Bugfix: Declare manual_enable_pool in miner.h, for api.c use
- Bugfix: bitfury: Use long long and llabs to avoid under/over flows misbehaving
- Bugfix: Highlight all active pools, in pool listing
- Set quota to 1 when enabling a failover-only pool, and disable failover-only
when setting quota
- Bugfix: pool_actively_desired: Detect failover-only conditions for loadbalance
and balance strategies
- Bugfix: Only display pools as Failover state when it is effectively so
- Make sure KEY_EVENT from wincon is ignored (it conflicts with ncurses)
- README.ASIC: Add details for BFx2 USB
- Titan: Submit stale shares while doing flushes
- README.ASIC: Remove CFLAGS hack not needed for KnCMiner Titan build
- Bugfix: Need unicode_micro in non-Unicode curses builds
- Remove unused variables from curses-less builds
- Bugfix: Cannot duplicate userpass option or we end up with it processed double
BFGMiner Version 4.10.0 - October 21, 2014
- Upgraded Windows libjansson from 2.6 to 2.7
- i2c-tools are not required by Titan
- minergate: Fix hashmeter
- minergate: Support minergate-side ntime rolling for SP30 only
- minergate: Autodetect SP30 on /tmp/connection_pipe_sp30
- minergate: Make stats file configurable
- minergate: SP30 only wants max 10 queue requests at a time
- minergate: Use work_completed flag for SP30
- minergate: Only SP10 has a second winner_nonce
- minergate: Simplify multi-winner_nonce handling
- Bugfix: minergate: Correct endian for 2nd winner_nonce
- minergate: Vary max jobs queued
- minergate: Vary number of requests/responses per packet
- minergate: Support --set MGT:protover=N
- Titan: fix compiler warning "maybe-uninitialized"
- Titan: Increase die inactivity timeout to 20 secs
- Titan: Slightly improve some debug messages
- Titan: Use multi-part batched SPI transfers for flushes (saves 2 secs on each
flush)
- Titan: Fix buffer overflow
- Titan: Increase queue prefill value up to 20
- Titan: Flag for fast broadcast flushes. Not enabled: DC/DCs trip off easily!
- Titan: Monitor die health, reconfigure it if no shares in 10 seconds
- Titan: Make log level of some messages lower, to not clobber the screen
- Titan: Work assignment and flushing is per-die, not per-ASIC
- Titan: Set flush flag after re-configuring the die
- Titan: Refactoring: intermediate variables for first_proc and repr
- Titan: Flush cores one-by-one right before reconfiguring them
- Titan: Define for the broadcast core address
- Titan: Re-configuring dies through API command "procset"
- Titan: Use correct version of knc_titan_setup_core
- Titan: configure_one_die func for configuring single die
- Titan: fill all non-found ASIC structs with the same (invalid) data
- Titan: Core init parameters (nonce range) independent of number of found dies
BFGMiner Version 4.9.0 - October 5, 2014
- Upgraded Windows libraries:
- - libcurl from 7.37.0 to 7.38.0
- - libusb from 1.0.18 to 1.0.19 (Win64 only)
- - mingw64-runtime from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 (Win64 only)
- - uthash from 1.9.7 to 1.9.9
- Travis: Update for titan driver
- configure: Accept --enable-titan=CONTROLLER to select controller
- make-release: Remove unnecessary knc-asic/{*.rbf,*system,waas} from release
source
- extra_work_queue so devices can influence their effect on the central work
queue somewhat (titan needs less than 1-per-proc)
- Avoid adding include paths for titan driver
- Bugfix: titan: Add missing printf formatting for core busy status
- avalon: Drop custom hexdump logging
- Build titan driver independently from knc (Jupiter) driver
- titan: Do not fill up next slot immediately after urgent setwork
- titan: Pre-fill work queue so that all ASICs have fresh jobs after a flush
- Build instructions for KnC Titan
- Doesn't compile without explicitly included inttypes.h on some machines
- knc-asic: Updated to e5c986d3c44fde8c5b069508ef6979f2f2be92d6
- Fix Makefile.am to build bfgminer for titan
- titan: Subdivide full nonce range only between cores in one ASIC (because
works are now distributed per-ASIC too)
- titan: DC/DCs does not like broadcast flushes (urgent setwork). Do not do it!
- titan: Preparation to setting threads-per-core externally, by user
- titan: Re-flush cores in case of slot number collision
- titan: Per-ASIC flush, per-ASIC work management
- titan: Start cores after flush individually, not by broadcast.
- titan: Default frequency is 275 MHz
- titan: Difficulty is offset by one in ASIC cores.
- titan: Fix first_proc pointer
- titan: Use 2 threads per core
- titan: Use setup_core from knc-asic library
- titan: Poll all enabled ASICs amd dies, not only one
- titan: Properly set work_accepted flag
- titan: Hint detection function about expected device type
- titan: Fix setup_core command
- titan: Use knc-asic library for transport layer
- Add knc-asic as submodule
- titan: Change spi device to spidev1.0
- titan: Add define to .h file
- titan: Increase workqueue size up to number of slots per core
- titan: Send data to hashmeter
- titan: Disregard stale reports after flush
- titan: Check for next asic/die switch when processing info results
- Bugfix: titan: Fix segfault
- titan: Set actual hardware nonce_diff for works in prepare_work
- titan: Do clean flush ("purge") on init
- titan: Store last_nonce right
- titan: First attempt to process nonce responses
- titan: Change 'scanhash' minerloop to 'queue'
- titan: Init all cores for their own nonce ranges
- titan: For RPi we use spidev0.1
- titan: Setup_core command implemented
- titan: New commands set_work & get_report
- titan: Move asic-specific functionality to the separate file (titan-asic.c)
- titan: First ugly detect of Titan chip over SPI
- knc-titan: Begin work on Titan (scrypt miner) driver
- libbase58: Use git URI for submodule to avoid failure on systems without HTTPS
support
- Travis: Cross-compile a Win64 build
- RPC: Initialise json_config to silence false warning
- Make sure MOUSE_MOVED from wincon is ignored (it conflicts with curses)
- Travis: Perform full builds with libbase58's base58 tool (which is used for
tests)
- Travis: Test many configuration variations
- Travis: Build with libsensors and VFIO
- Travis: Upgrading GCC triggers locale rebuild, so just do the one in use
- Travis: No need to upgrade GCC for LLVM build
- Travis build configuration
- Run BFGMiner's unit tests for 'make check', and have --unittest exit with
failure if any problems occur
- libbase58: Update to pick up on LLVM fixes
- Bugfix: configure: Affect gridseed driver with --disable-other-drivers
- Bugfix: configure: minergate driver needs lowlevel for claiming sockets
- Bugfix: configure: --disable-other-drivers should not affect non-driver
options
- Bugfix: configure: --with[out]-vfio needs $withval, not $enableval
- Bugfix: rockminer: Correct types for short read error message
- Bugfix: icarus: fix the STATS RPC API call crashes with a multi-proc device
- Bugfix: cointerra: Check lowlevel device is USB before trying to probe it (as
USB)
- bitforce: Reinstate device work inprogress count sanity check for 28nm devices
- littlefury: Read uC temperature sensor
- littlefury: Keep track of enabled chips and power state explicitly in case of
trouble
- Bugfix: async minerloop fix for devices disabled at start
- twinfury: Implement device protocol dump more low-level
BFGMiner Version 4.8.0 - September 10, 2014
- Improve precision of total_secs used in (at least) RPC summary Elapsed
- Bump embedded libblkmaker to 0.5.0
- Bump embedded libbase58 to 0.1.1
- Remove now-unused bfg_cond_timedwait which cannot be made portable
- Spawn a new thread for cmd-idle rather than relying on problematic pthread
timedwait
- README: --coinbase-check-* options
- Bugfix: Accept actual percentages for --coinbase-check-percent
- Optimise coinbase check logic by using actual script bytes everywhere possible
- Pool option #skipcbcheck to disable new coinbase checks
- pool_check_coinbase: Avoid redisabling an already misbehaving pool
- Bugfix: Keep connection active for rejecting and misbehaving pools so we can
detect when they recover
- Share pool coinbase check reaction code
- Initial version of coinbase checking function for GBT and stratum
- cointerra: Ensure devlog messages cannot overflow
- Bugfix: cointerra: Defer setting USB timeout until after initialisation
- cointerra: Set configuration and claim interface
- Bugfix: cointerra: Check ep is open before trying to talk to it (crash at init
failure)
- cointerra: Support for --set cta:load=N
- cointerra: Store load setting on struct cointerra_info
- cointerra: Operate within a single thread
- cointerra: Update to minerloop_queue
- cointerra: Split work packet into cointerra_queue_append function
- cointerra: Prepare for splitting work packet into cointerra_queue_append
function
- cointerra: Use more fresh code for work packet
- cointerra: Use fresh code for work packet
- Bugfix: cointerra: Use bfg_cond_timedwait to avoid spinning
- cointerra: Claim and release lowlevel device
- cointerra: Propagate per-core temperatures to each processor
- cointerra: Reduce redundant stats information
- cointerra: Correctly divide up individual processors
- cointerra: Update to latest BFGMiner
- work_ntime_range helper function
- work_{get,set}_ntime inline functions
- Store a reference timeval with ntime_roll_limits
- util: min macro
- cointerra: Cleanup debugging
- cointerra: Divide up processors
- cointerra: Wait for info packet on probe
- cointerra: Dirty BFGMiner port
- lowl-usb: Cleanup dead code
- notifier_wait, notifier_wait_us, and notifier_reset functions
- Export the flush_queue function for use by drivers.
- Provide a function to discard queued work based on age.
- Export share_diff function and add flip12 macro
- Provide a copy_work_noffset function for copying a work struct but changing
its ntime.
- Add api_add_int16 to API functions.
- cointerra: Remove nodev checks for now
- cointerra: Replace reset semaphore with a simple notifier
- Build cointerra driver
- cointerra: Import driver from cgminer as-is
- Silently ignore shares rejected if they were above target and only got
submitted "just in case"
- Abstract put_in_parens function
- Abstract extract_reject_reason function
- Remove dead code
- Bugfix: bfg_cond_timedwait providing semantics expected for --cmd-idle
implementation
- Per-processor TUI: Align columns for more-than-one proc letter
- m4/bundled_lib: Workaround bug in autoconf <2.64
- If full version is too long, try truncating it at '-'
- Bugfix: Fix CPU miner benchmarking within benchmark-intense mode
- benchmark: Detect duplicate shares within 5 minutes
- benchmark-intense: benchmark_update_interval constant in code
- benchmark-intense: Detect stale results
- benchmark-intense: Update work every second
- benchmark-intense: Simulate 250 KB generation transaction
- benchmark-intense: Generate individual work items from 2D work (tests host CPU
rate of work production)
- Introduce --benchmark-intense option
- Import libbase58 for base58 encoding/decoding
- Cleanup libblkmaker bundling code to mostly live in autoconf macros
- Always check if we should switch pools when enabling one, and always enable
pools we want to switch to
BFGMiner Version 4.7.1 - September 10, 2014
- Bugfix: Reorder LDADD and such for priority
- Bugfix: bitforce: Initialise variable to NULL
- Bugfix: SSM: Use client_next member consistently when working with
stratumsrv_connlist
- Bugfix: SSM: Check that a username is provided to mining.authorize
- Bugfix: SSM: When n2pad<0, release lock before returning
- Bugfix: SSM: Make buffers long enough to avoid overflows
- Bugfix: Need signed types for ntime min/max offsets
- Bugfix: rockminer: Fix processor disabling
- rockminer: Limit even unsafe frequencies to 640 MHz, since above that
overflows frequency bits and triggers fan control
- tq_pop: Remove abstime argument since nothing used it and it wouldn't work
anyway (uses CLOCK_REALTIME while we use CLOCK_MONOTONIC[_RAW] when possible)
- Bugfix: Check last solo generation tx against new template rather than most
recent
- README: Explicitly mention automatic solo mining configuration, and stress the
importance of --coinbase-sig
- Bugfix: Recheck current_pool after calling pool_died
- Bugfix: Stable pool recovery: Only care if the pool is enabled
- README.ASIC: Add a section for Gridseed
- Bugfix: benchmark: Free json_null() after use
- Bugfix: minergate: Claim socket before we initialise a cgpu for it
- Bugfix: avalonmm: Claim device before we initialise a cgpu for it
- Bugfix: switch_pools: Broadcast lp_cond outside of control_lock to avoid
deadlocking
- Protect enabled_pools by a mutex in disable_pool function
- Combine reject_pool into disable_pool function, and don't allow it to override
a manual disable
- Call disable_pool() at the begin of remove_pool() and combine them when
appears together in the code
- Bugfix: Always call enable_pool and disable_pool to ensure consistent handling
of the situations
- Remove dead CPU mining code to silence warnings
BFGMiner Version 4.7.0 - August 17, 2014
- openwrt/multibuild: Avoid copying bitforce-firmware-flash, which is no longer
included
- AUTHORS: Simpler design, alphabetise lists
- Remove obsolete SuSE packaging
- Bugfix: test_hash: Fix Htarg calculation for exact binary divisions of diff 1
- Fix target calculation from diff < 1.0 in test_hash()
- avalonmm: Try to autodetect a sane default voltage and clock from MM version
- avalonmm: Only poll one module at a time, so they don't try to talk over each
other
- avalonmm: Set baud rate for detection
- Stratum: Ignore response from mining.extranonce.subscribe
- Stratum: Implement mining.set_extranonce, and advertise support for it to
pools with a #xnsub flag
- Stratum: Keep nonce1 and n2size in a "staging" state until mining.notify is
received
- Stratum: Avoid putting new targets on pool stratum_work until mining.notify is
received for it
- minergate: Flush during init
- minergate: Flush ready-to-queue list
- minergate: Avoid preparing new jobs to queue while we are pending a flush,
since the flush would occur after queuing the new jobs
- minergate: Check for reused job ids
- minergate: Avoid counting flushed jobs toward hashes done
- minergate: Report all temperatures individually to RPC
- minergate: Load temperatures from stats file
- minergate: Implement hashmeter
- minergate: Scale nonce difficulty up to pdiff 32
- minergate: Implement mining
- minergate: Support for detecting a SP10
- Bugfix: configure: avalonmm needs work2d
- Bugfix: bitforce: Remove sanity check triggered by race conditions on 65nm
devices
- Bugfix: bitforce: Avoid double-free of voltage data
BFGMiner Version 4.6.0 - August 2, 2014
- avalonmm: Even if no fans report speed, display set %
- Bugfix: avalonmm: Fix fan speed setting
- Bugfix: avalonmm: Actually read the result needed to get the correct module id
- README.ASIC: Document AvalonMM driver usage with Avalon 2/3 rigs
- Bugfix: Makefile.am: Remove reference to non-existent driver-avalonmm.h
- avalonmm: Safely handle an improper job id that is within the last 2 sent
- avalonmm: Include asserted fan speed in RPC
- avalonmm: Include asserted fan speed in ManageTUI
- avalonmm: Silence warning about detect ack at runtime
- avalonmm: Make fan speed an option (both RPC and TUI)
- avalonmm: Allow changing clock speed and voltage from Manage TUI
- Bugfix: avalonmm: Show proper units for fans & voltage
- avalonmm: Support for disabling the entire chain
- Implement broad_udevrules for avalonmm
- avalonmm: Show extranonce1, module id, temperatures, fans, clock, and voltage
in Manage TUI
- avalonmm: Include Module Id and ExtraNonce1 in RPC devdetails
- avalonmm: Add Temperature0/1 and Fan Percent 0/1 to RPC
- avalonmm: Add Frequency and Voltage to RPC
- avalonmm: Add voltage setting (defaults to 0.6625 V)
- avalonmm: Add clock setting and try to autodetect it if not provided
- avalonmm: Implement hashmeter
- avalonmm: Adjust device target up to pdiff 32 when possible
- avalonmm: Update job when current pool changes
- Bugfix: avalonmm: MM flips the xnonce2, so we need to do the same
- avalonmm: Implement mining logic
- lowl-spi: Move bit order reverse to bitflip8 function in util
- avalonmm: Treat multiple chained modules as slaves rather than processors
- avalonmm: Probing for devices using Avalon Miner Manager (Avalon2/3 rigs)
- littlefury: Move crc16 logic to util
- Use BUILT_SOURCES to ensure version.h is always built first
- configure option --with-udevrules-group to allow customising the group name
used
- Bugfix: zero_stats: Only call cgpu function if it exists
- Remove FPGA-only bitforce-firmware-flash tool (now located at
https://github.com/luke-jr/bitforce-fpga-firmware-flash )
BFGMiner Version 4.5.0 - July 26, 2014
- Bugfix: zeusminer: Fix crash in TUI with newly introduced feature
- Bugfix: gridseed: Fix crash in TUI with newly introduced feature
- gridseed: Add the ability to set clock speed via the TUI
- bitforce: Support for Monarch devices on Windows using new "mswin" lowlevel
interface to scan for KMDF driver
- Bugfix: gridseed: Implement a proper scanhash routine for GridSeeds
- zeusminer: Add the ability to set clock speed via the TUI
- Bugfix: gridseed: Only set PLL frequency once (not once per processor)
- Bugfix: zeusminer: Retry detection on failure - ZM fails detection 1 / ~30
times
- Bugfix: zeusminer: Enabling the ZeusMiner driver should flag needing lowl-vcom
- aan: Silence false warnings
- Include broad udev rules when configured with --enable-broad-udevrules option
- Bugfix: util: Lower the threshold for considering pool Scrypt diff broken
- Bugfix: gc3355: Do not send work_id (or anything) in the last 4 bytes of work
- gridseed: Refactor code to clean up and organize
- gridseed: Document GridSeed specifics with comments and URLs
- Copyright cleanups and updates
- Bugfix: zeusminer: using icarus timing can lead to false positive Idle
detection
- zeusminer: Return the Chip # via the RPC API call procdetails
- zeusminer: Display the Chip # in the UI when viewing per-proc details
- Bugfix: miner: Check work->blk.nonce to see if work should be abandoned
- rockminer: Allow setting clock 300-2560 as long as prefixed by "unsafe:"
- util: Work around broken Scrypt pools automatically using realistic pdiff
assumptions
- scanhash: Document scanhash related methods with comments
- Bugfix: gridseed: Report communication errors using dev_error()
- gc3355: Return bytes read to distinguish 0 bytes from error
- Bugfix: gridseed: Add delay between Scrypt reset and sending work
- gridseed: Bugfix: fix the constant used for estimated hash rates
- klondike: zero_stats support
- bitforce: zero_stats support (Temperature, Voltage, and Avg Wait)
- avalon: zero_stats support (temp_max, no_matching_work, match_work_count%d)
- Add driver interface for zero_stats function
- Bugfix: bitforce: Short-circuit bitforce_read(0) to avoid lowlif issues
- Bugfix: bitforce: Ensure data for the current command is always read (and only
once), with lowl-pci
- Bugfix: setup-vfio: Add device ids to vfio-pci even if they didn't have a
driver previously
- Bugfix: lowl-pci: Use volatile qualifier for PCI mmaps
- Bugfix: bitforce: Use lowlevel interface device was probed with, for actual
mining
- setup-vfio: New shell script to automatically configure VFIO
- README.ASIC: Monarch: Need to do new_id for every affected device, and only
after unbinding them
- README.ASIC: Monarch: Use shell variables for commands
- gridseed: Bugfix: Revert earlier changes to scanhash based on feedback
- hashfast: Support for changing clock at runtime
- hashfast: Store a copy of what we believe to be the chip configuration data
- hashfast: Store firmware revision
- util: pk_uNle macro for changing a number inside a packed structure
- README.ASIC: KnCMiner: Talk about additional i2c-tools dependency
- README.ASIC: KnCMiner: Remove mention of now-obsolete Bertmod
- README.ASIC: KnCMiner: Grammatical corrections
- Bugfix: RPC: Avoid processor-specific details in devdetails
- gridseed: Bugfix: log invalid detect responses as debug info, not an error
- zeusminer: Support setting clock via RPC API procset call
- README: Add Controla and Minera controller software links & info
- gridseed: Bugfix: Fix hash-rate calculation when no nonces are being found
- dualminer: Bugfix: assign the proper value for work_division
- gridseed: Refactor to clarify GridSeed terminology
- gridseed: Add support for displaying per-chip statistics
- gridseed: Convert to use newer set_device_funcs interface
- Bugfix: gridseed: Don't leak cgpu_info when devices are already claimed
- icarus: Processor detail support
- DevAPI: Allow using device_proc_by_id with const struct cgpu_info
- icarus: Ensure fpga_count is finalised before add_cgpu is called
- icarus: Move work_division autodetection code into new
icarus_probe_work_division function
- icarus: Remove ability to change fpga_count at runtime
- Bugfix: gen-version.sh: Replace bashism ("here string")
- gridseed: Support devices with more than 255 physical processors
- Use `git describe` to generate version.h to avoid user confusion over builds
from git
- zeusminer: Support devices with more than 255 physical processors
- hashfast: Include chip/core address in RPC procdetails
- gridseed: Reduce traffic sending work to GridSeed devices
- gridseed: Bugfix: previous refactor (unpublished) changed logic
- gc3355: Refactor to remove SHA2 code specific to the 5-Chip GridSeed Orb
- lowl-vcom: Bugfix: do not attempt to open the USB devices when enumerating
BFGMiner Version 4.4.0 - July 7, 2014
- Update official Windows build compiler from GCC 4.7.3 to 4.7.4
- lowl-vcom: Added support for auto scanning (-S auto) on Mac OS X
- rockminer: implement --device-protocol-dump for debugging
- README: Update for commandline options
- README: Update configure options
- Bugfix: bfg_gpio_setpin_output: Clear alt-function bits via INP_GPIO macro
- jingtian: Explicitly configure SPI device while opening
- jingtian: Toggle ASIC reset GPIO at startup
- aan: Set defaults as soon as a proc is initialised
- aan: Allow specifying clock as xHEXX for a raw PLL register config
- aan: Include current frequency in RPC status
- aan: Implement --set jtn:clock=MHz
- aan: Logic to calculate PLL configurations for a given frequency
- jingtian: Use SPI enable GPIO to disconnect SPI during chipselect changes
- aan: Set PLL to 850 MHz
- aan: Simplify register buffer
- jingtian: Decode extra temperature bytes in read_reg
- aan: Add a read_reg hook
- aan: Enable configuring nonce diff with (eg) --set jtn:diff=32
- aan: Properly handle nonce_diff
- aan: Implement mining
- DevAPI: Some designs set the main thr tv_poll from secondary thrs, so check it
after the loop
- aan: aan_spi_parse_rx implies spi_clear_buf
- jingtian: Do detection asynchronously across all possible chipselects so they
complete in parallel
- aan: Refactor aan_spi_cmd a bit
- jingtian: Implement device protocol dump
- jingtian: Detection-only code for new driver
- lowl-spi: GPIO access functions
- lowl-spi: Move knc_spi_txrx to linux_spi_txrx
- SGW: Support for proxy-share difficulty preferences
- SSM: Propagate proxy-share difficulty changes to established connections
- SSM: Track stratum connections for each proxy user
- SSM: Track authorised users for each connection
- SSM: Initialise proxyshare difficulty from --set pxy:diff=N
- proxy: Accept --set pxy:diff=N to set preferred proxyshare difficulty
- proxy: Provide a place to store desired proxyshare difficulty on a
per-username basis, and copy it to SSM connections when authorising them
- SSM: Track proxy share difficulties
- Expose target_diff function and add pdiff_to_bdiff macro
- util: double_find_precision function to identify ideal precision for a fp
number
- work2d: Expose WORK2D_MAX_DIVISIONS in header
- add_local_gbt: Avoid adding servers already configured
- Bugfix: Avoid writing automatically configured local GBT servers to the config
file unless they have been manually enabled
- add_local_gbt: Use rpcconnect when configured
- rockminer: Bugfix: must specify a baud rate (maximum of 115200) to get a read
response
- Bugfix: Use atexit() to ensure a final \n is always printed at exit to work
cleanly with new logging design
- Restore compatibility with old versions of libblkmaker
- Bugfix: probe for ZeusMiner before probing for DualMiner