Topic: AntMiner Community Edition Firmware Improvement Project (Read 5146 times)

Here's something I've been working on that should help out with making testing on the S1 and S3 safer, uboot http recovery interface. Once flashed it can be accessed by holding the reset button for 3 seconds after a reboot, this will be useful for those who don't have a ttl cable for recovery but still want to flash custom builds. I still need to make some changes and finalize the procedure for flashing uboot from within OpenWRT.

S5 just uses a SD card based recovery like the other beaglebone based AntMiners so it would be pointless there, it's also pretty specific to the chipset used on the S1 and S3 and porting it would not be easy.

WOW nice can't wait to try it out on my S3 just to test it .Will it work for S5 's later on ?.
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Here's something I've been working on that should help out with making testing on the S1 and S3 safer, uboot http recovery interface. Once flashed it can be accessed by holding the reset button for 3 seconds after a reboot, this will be useful for those who don't have a ttl cable for recovery but still want to flash custom builds. I still need to make some changes and finalize the procedure for flashing uboot from within OpenWRT.

Cgminer was forked from cpuminer and bfgminer forked from cgminer.

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--- Log opened Thu Mar 01 01:00:52 2012
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01:17 < luke-jr> good for them. no distro gets preference
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14:16 < Sharky112065> Hmm.. I think conman should change cgminer's name to FGMiner.
14:16 < kanoi> FUMiner :)
14:17 < Sharky112065> :P
14:17 < kanoi> though GFMiner works as well :)
14:17 < Sharky112065> Well if it was FGMiner people could go either way ... FPGA/GPU Miner or Fucking Good/Great Miner.
14:18 < kanoi> BFGMiner? :)
14:18 < Sharky112065> Ah I see Great Fucking Miner works too :P
14:18 < Sharky112065> Oh I like that
14:19 < kanoi> B for bitcoin of course :)
14:19 < Sharky112065> Oh I thought you ment bfl
14:19 < kanoi> BFG the most well known acronym to FPS'ers :)
14:20 < kanoi> but also Bitcoin FPGA GPU :)
14:20 < Sharky112065> yep. I know.
14:20 < Sharky112065> Ie Big Fucking Gun
14:20 < kanoi> hmm I'm liking that name more and more :)
14:20 < kanoi> Yep
14:21 < kanoi> I'll suggest that V3.0 be BFGMiner - heh great idea IMO :)
14:22 < Sharky112065> Yep. I agree.
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Was there a gminer that these two, c & bf, forked from?

8 )

Was there a gminer that these two, c & bf, forked from?

8 )

Now that things are open, BFGMiner support is planned as well (at least for the S5).
There's a lot of code to go through, though, so it might be a few weeks still.

P.S. Ignore the cgminer trolls' lies.

No wonder my antminer C1 Acting odds ( beeping even the connection status alive , and then stop hashing for awhile, few seconds from that  its running again as usual with status restart) when  they found valid blocks from blockchain  (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/everytime-ive-got-this-screen-suddenly-my-miner-gets-odd-1051699) , well if its true bitmain has 'hidden agenda' in their miner drive , it would make ordinary people like me with no programming skill less trust with the bitcoin it self .

Ps : anyone here knows  how to install CG miner to antminer C1 instead of using the firmware ? sorry for the noobish question

OK - I'm looking at this and seeing a waste of time.
Anyone can mess with the firmware and make it look better or whatever
- my S2 firmware release I'll do soon will be a lot better than the standard S2.

But the problem is what Bitmain has done to cgminer.
They broke the API so it is no longer backward compatible.
They added code in their driver to drop shares, based on stupidity (on p2pool it throws away valid blocks) - the driver is not suppose to do that at all.
They added code in their S2 driver to pass unchecked shares to the pool to get the pool to do the diff checking work rather than cgminer doing it.
They store 6000 work items in the S2 SPI kernel driver for some obscure unknown reason.
Meh it's been over a year since I did this, not sure what else I saw in there.

Basically the problem with Bitmain is their cg*iner driver.
Remove their version and use the fixed master cgminer version - for the S1 and S2 so far.

I've again (today) released another AntS1 cgminer updated to the latest cgminer code.
That is the code they should be using, not their borked version.
They've ignored it since I released it back on 24 Mar 2014
They've ignored the S2 release since I released it 11 months ago.

And then they go and say that you void your warranty if you fix it.
Meh.

I've not looked at the S3 yet ... that's after I do the S2.

Edit: seems my rant made the first post be updated - they will have unsupported builds using the official cgminer ... until further notice.

Ladies and Gentleman - kano! Making it impossible to work with on community projects since...well the first time anyone tried to do that with him.

Please ignore the racist, zealot, bigot's lies coz he makes statements without proof coz he never can prove them.

Now that things are open, BFGMiner support is planned as well (at least for the S5).
There's a lot of code to go through, though, so it might be a few weeks still.

P.S. Ignore the cgminer trolls' lies.

Guess that means well never See  BFG support .

 I'll say it again I  like both CG and BFG .

why not give us that choice ? .   

Guess that means well never See  BFG support .

 I'll say it again I  like both CG and BFG .

why not give us that choice ? .