Topic: BFGMiner Source Help (Read 2661 times)
I'm on beginning level but this topic help me a lot, thanks.
I want to write a program that can use my Saphire asic miner to generate a hash. I just need to pass in a value and get the value returned. I need some help with my class project (C#), the idea is to write a C# program that connects to a hardware device. My questions below are listed starting at the minimum and moving to more helpful.
1) Anyone what/where command codes are for a Saphire miner? By sapphire I mean the USB device that generates 333 Mh/s.
2) Anyone know which source file this correlates to? I see no sapphire driver.
3) Any guidance on which source file / function that actually does the work of passing in a parameter and handling the return value?
I did try on my own but the main function is in Sample and doesn't seem to do what I expected (possibly misunderstood
). I couldn't find the work function. And I couldn't tell which driver I needed to look at.
Thanks for any answer.
1) Anyone what/where command codes are for a Saphire miner? By sapphire I mean the USB device that generates 333 Mh/s.
2) Anyone know which source file this correlates to? I see no sapphire driver.
3) Any guidance on which source file / function that actually does the work of passing in a parameter and handling the return value?
I did try on my own but the main function is in Sample and doesn't seem to do what I expected (possibly misunderstood
). I couldn't find the work function. And I couldn't tell which driver I needed to look at.Thanks for any answer.
The relevant files are here:
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/driver-erupter.c
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/driver-icarus.c
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/driver-icarus.h
That being said, ASICs including the Erupter are not made to provide hashes of random data. They take a very specific input describing work to be done and generally return a nonce that satisfies that piece of work.
It's all very specific to blockchain mining. See the following for more info:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/1291
I want to write a program that can use my Saphire asic miner to generate a hash. I just need to pass in a value and get the value returned. I need some help with my class project (C#), the idea is to write a C# program that connects to a hardware device. My questions below are listed starting at the minimum and moving to more helpful.
1) Anyone what/where command codes are for a Saphire miner? By sapphire I mean the USB device that generates 333 Mh/s.
2) Anyone know which source file this correlates to? I see no sapphire driver.
3) Any guidance on which source file / function that actually does the work of passing in a parameter and handling the return value?
I did try on my own but the main function is in Sample and doesn't seem to do what I expected (possibly misunderstood). I couldn't find the work function. And I couldn't tell which driver I needed to look at.
Thanks for any answer.
1) Anyone what/where command codes are for a Saphire miner? By sapphire I mean the USB device that generates 333 Mh/s.
2) Anyone know which source file this correlates to? I see no sapphire driver.
3) Any guidance on which source file / function that actually does the work of passing in a parameter and handling the return value?
I did try on my own but the main function is in Sample and doesn't seem to do what I expected (possibly misunderstood
). I couldn't find the work function. And I couldn't tell which driver I needed to look at.Thanks for any answer.
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