Had an xilinx board with bitmain may 3 s9 firmware. Tried to install braiins with no luck. Then I flashed bitmain dec 5 s9 firmware on it and THEN installed braiins and I am good to go.
I have a few t9+ miners I was going to see if I could put a braiins flashed s9 xilinx board in it instead, have not gotten around to it yet. I know I probably need to throw a few more commas in the cgminer.conf for the mhz and the voltage. Next on my list.
Can confirm this is working, have done the same process to a T9 (NOT T9+) that was shutting down because of overheating.
Flashed the T9 to the S9 Dec 5 firmware, then flashed brains OS over the top. Boots and runs, and you can control the chip speed and voltage, but as wolfen said you get no temp readout and the fans run at full speed.
Would be nice to get temps, but I suspect the braiins guys would need a T9 to test/tweak.
This particular machine has been problematic, and prone to overheating, so I wanted to underclock and undervolt it, but bitmain won't release AB firmware for the T9, and the old trick of going into minerAdvanced.cgi never did anything, it appears to be working for this one. I have it at 600Mhz and 8.5V
If I stick one 63 chip board in with two 57 chip boards I get one chip temp reading on the 63 chip board. Then it uses the one 63 chip board temp
to control the fan. I have had stock 550mhz miner chip temps run at 115C all day. I have a few miners at 105C dangerous temp now so they won't shut off too early.
Some 63 chip hash boards have no temp either, I just make sure I have ONE hash board with temp. I just pulled a board out of my dead pile that had no temp. Works fine with no-sensor-scan in a single board miner. On bitmain firmware it did not run.
Nice to be able to mix and match with braiins.