What you think, there are people out there that claims that have a firmware for D3 that can make diffrent a*go than x11,
is it might be possible to get from asics printed on silicon level to calculate different pow than x11?
modding and recompiling the cgminer? Hmm most unlikely possible.
Assume that is possible, then why then D3 is sold by Bitmain for 310$, why not unlock it? Or suddenly they care about killing a*goritms.
Ya, not possible with software alone.. ASIC = application specific, meaning they burn the code to the chip itself, so there is no way to change
the underlying code of the chip. Others use FPGA (field programmable) which are able to be controlled by software (just write new code to chip)..
So what baikal either is doing is using FPGA and calling them asic's, or, are using asic's and burning all the different algo's onto the chip..
I'm guessing they are using FPGA's since they can "add" different algos in the future, which would not be possible with asic's alone.
Since x11 is 11 different algo's my attempt was to try to trick the d3 into doing just one of those over and over, there is something I am missing though - because it should be able to do each of the algos.. the problem seems to be whatever it is that is telling it to skip to the next algo in the sequence -(if the part that tells it to skip to the next one is on the chip itself then it probably can't be done-) I have not worked on it since my last post though because life reached up and slapped me in the face.
Ok I played with D3 till yesterday and my findings are :
I have modified xcoin.c to do just one algo, moreover, I have verified it with golden block in fn bitmain_scanhash my chosen algo, I have also changed the merkle root calc for my algo in gen_stratum_work....
but after that the i noticed the bad thing:
in DASH_work_fill is the answer that is impossible to do other algo!
there is filled the work on the asics ( through PIC ?? ) and the diff , the asics do the job and answers with good nonces(only) found and readen by cgminer in one common buffer which are sent to fn bitmain_scanhash and to famous Xhash() to be verifed on armv7, then with all info prepared and packed back to the stratum.
Game over then , unless if there is a way to set asic chain with registers with chosen algo or if the PIC is an actor in that. I doubt with D3 such performance speed that asics algo are selectable or the algo chain inside could be selectable in the burned asic pipe, whatever is the ant strategy.
So unless someone have saints in bitmain to have a clue how to change a chain on the (if the ants are designed in chain asic by algo or asic registers ) is dead end, D3 is x11 only for now.
