Braiins OS & Braiins OS+ custom ASIC firmware: optimize performance & efficiency

[rz66]

Watch @slush_pool & @braiins_systems CEO @janbraiins talk #Live with @HillebrandMax at @WorldCryptoNet!

He will talk about a hot topic: how we #OpenSource #Bitcoin mining firmware #BraiinsOS to free #ASICBoost!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp28koBxMg

[DefiantMiner]

Watch @slush_pool & @braiins_systems CEO @janbraiins talk #Live with @HillebrandMax at @WorldCryptoNet!

He will talk about a hot topic: how we #OpenSource #Bitcoin mining firmware #BraiinsOS to free #ASICBoost!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp28koBxMg

Skip to 23:45 for the specifc explanation on how Bitmain's firmware is not BIP310 protocol compliant.

[Artemis3]

Would be nice if this could be used with the R4... Also, any plans to add asicboost?

for the hundred thousandth time ASICBOOST requires compatible HARDWARE. There is no magic software to enable it on hardware that was not designed for it.

And Bitmain just announced it officially:

"We’re very pleased to share that last night our developers released the firmware for the Antminer S9 to enable what is popularly called the “overt AsicBoost” functionality. We will also release in one week the firmware to activate this functionality in other BM1387-based models namely the Antminer R4, S9i, S9j, T9 and T9+."

You were saying? The BM1387 chip lacked asicboost?

If Braiins has plans to release a firmware for the R4, i would rather wait for it than use Bitmain's. The R4 is just an S9 with two boards and 1 fan.

[grinbuck]

It works on Kano pool.

Hi @sarcheer I'm using it on a 14Th S9 on Antpool and it works fine. However the frequencies on all my chains is set to 600 and by default the advanced page to change this is not displayed.

At 600, it gives about 12 Th/s pool side.

Is it the same with you?

Edit: Manually going to http://192.168.x.xxx/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi and increasing frequency works without issues.

[daniel232388]

its still not working on slush pool. bitmain claimed to have fixed the issues. NOT WORKING FOR ME ON SLUSH POOL

[Guinsanity]

its still not working on slush pool. bitmain claimed to have fixed the issues. NOT WORKING FOR ME ON SLUSH POOL

https://slushpool.com/news/attention-miners-dont-upgrade-your-s9-devices-with-the-new-bitmain-firmware/

[daniel232388]

https://slushpool.com/news/attention-miners-dont-upgrade-your-s9-devices-with-the-new-bitmain-firmware/

bitmain claimed to have fixed the issue with slush pool.

[rockminer1]

Please help me to fix error

Code:

$ ls
factory_transition  sd.img

$ cd factory_transition

$ ls

firmware  hwid.py  requirements.txt  restore2factory.py  ssh.py  system  upgrade2bos.py

Code:

$ virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 .env

Already using interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.

$ source .env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r ./requirements.txt

Collecting progress==1.2 (from -r ./requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/74/54/bb538ae57f32fca8bf65c837d3f1715f7c17ae7734d87f4a9a56dab6e982/progress-1.2.tar.gz
Collecting Paramiko==2.0 (from -r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/72/38/8bb071506c91db110b579c797b65a399fd08e3fbc80af89cc144ecbcbac7/paramiko-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (170kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 174kB 2.2MB/s 
Collecting pyasn1>=0.1.7 (from Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d1/a1/7790cc85db38daa874f6a2e6308131b9953feb1367f2ae2d1123bb93a9f5/pyasn1-0.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (72kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 81kB 15.2MB/s 
Collecting cryptography>=1.1 (from Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/32/92cade62c645756a83598edf56289e9b19aae5370642a7ce690cd06bc72f/cryptography-2.3.1-cp34-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (2.1MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.1MB 7.4MB/s 
Collecting asn1crypto>=0.21.0 (from cryptography>=1.1->Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ea/cd/35485615f45f30a510576f1a56d1e0a7ad7bd8ab5ed7cdc600ef7cd06222/asn1crypto-0.24.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (101kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 102kB 11.8MB/s 
Collecting cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.7 (from cryptography>=1.1->Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/cc/0e1635b4951021ef35f5c92b32c865ae605fac2a19d724fb6ff99d745c81/cffi-1.11.5-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (420kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 430kB 2.8MB/s 
Collecting six>=1.4.1 (from cryptography>=1.1->Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/67/4b/141a581104b1f6397bfa78ac9d43d8ad29a7ca43ea90a2d863fe3056e86a/six-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting idna>=2.1 (from cryptography>=1.1->Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4b/2a/0276479a4b3caeb8a8c1af2f8e4355746a97fab05a372e4a2c6a6b876165/idna-2.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pycparser (from cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.7->cryptography>=1.1->Paramiko==2.0->-r ./requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/68/9e/49196946aee219aead1290e00d1e7fdeab8567783e83e1b9ab5585e6206a/pycparser-2.19.tar.gz (158kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 163kB 12.3MB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: progress, pycparser
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for progress ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/69/dd/ac/3959c9b8978e9f4e4ae73d33f42981438e43987314e845de51
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pycparser ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/f2/9a/90/de94f8556265ddc9d9c8b271b0f63e57b26fb1d67a45564511
Successfully built progress pycparser
Installing collected packages: progress, pyasn1, asn1crypto, pycparser, cffi, six, idna, cryptography, Paramiko
Successfully installed Paramiko-2.0.0 asn1crypto-0.24.0 cffi-1.11.5 cryptography-2.3.1 idna-2.7 progress-1.2 pyasn1-0.4.4 pycparser-2.19 six-1.11.0

error is here!!!

Code:

$ python3 upgrade2bos.py 192.168.0.33

Connecting to remote host...
/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/rsakey.py:119: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: signer and verifier have been deprecated. Please use sign and verify instead.
  algorithm=hashes.SHA1(),
Password: 
Preparing remote system...
Copy ld-musl-armhf.so.1 to /lib/ld-musl-armhf.so.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "upgrade2bos.py", line 182, in <module>
    main(args)
  File "upgrade2bos.py", line 138, in main
    prepare_system(ssh)
  File "upgrade2bos.py", line 86, in prepare_system
    ssh.put(os.path.join(SYSTEM_DIR, file_name), remote_file_name)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/ssh.py", line 218, in put
    shutil.copyfileobj(local, remote)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/shutil.py", line 76, in copyfileobj
    fdst.write(buf)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/file.py", line 381, in write
    self._write_all(data)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/file.py", line 498, in _write_all
    count = self._write(data)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 1237, in _write
    self.channel.sendall(data)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 761, in sendall
    sent = self.send(s)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 715, in send
    return self._send(s, m)
  File "/home/user/braiins/braiins-os-firmware_zynq-am1-s9_2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d/factory_transition/.env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 1075, in _send
    raise socket.error('Socket is closed')
OSError: Socket is closed

OSError: Socket is closed

[grinbuck]

bitmain claimed to have fixed the issue with slush pool.

I can confirm that the new updated Asicboost enabled firmware dated 23rd October by Bitmain works on Slushpool, Kano, CkPool and Prohashing.

[daniel232388]

I can confirm that the new updated Asicboost enabled firmware dated 23rd October by Bitmain works on Slushpool, Kano, CkPool and Prohashing.

yes....just realised that the firmware i downloaded was before the fixed......download the 23rd firmware and it works. but....what does this asicbooster supposed to do? i dont see any different besides from low fan speed and temperature. lol....total noob.

[sarcheer]

Lower fan speed and temp is a result of lower power consumption, achieved using AsicBoost.

[rz66]

why on earth would you believe anything bitmain says tbh lol jihan and his bastards were running asicboost forever then selling used miners, the blog post stated a bunch of garbage about them adhearing to patent rights (booowshit) lol, braains forced their hands before he released his own. take the garbage firmware off until slush says it’s compatible - again screw what bitmain says they only want you mining on their garbage pools

[sarcheer]

why on earth would you believe anything bitmain says tbh lol jihan and his bastards were running asicboost forever then selling used miners, the blog post stated a bunch of garbage about them adhearing to patent rights (booowshit) lol, braains forced their hands before he released his own. take the garbage firmware off until slush says it’s compatible - again screw what bitmain says they only want you mining on their garbage pools

Works on Kano Pool, a very anti-Bitmain pool. I don't buy their reasoning but their firmware is available for anyone to download and audit. Its in use by a number of prominent forum members who are reporting on its effects on their miners.

[Toady001]

Anyone able to solve the below error whilst trying to flash.

I'm assuming it thinks the machine is the newer S9's

Code:

Uploading firmware...
firmware/CONTROL: |################################| 1360/1360
firmware/uboot_env.bin: |################################| 131072/131072
firmware/uboot_env.config: |################################| 382/382
firmware/stage1.sh: |################################| 3018/3018
firmware/stage2.tgz: |################################| 17840065/17840065
firmware/fit.itb: |################################| 7134088/7134088
firmware/system.bit.gz: |################################| 381877/381877
firmware/boot.bin: |################################| 79647/79647
firmware/u-boot.img: |################################| 573700/573700
Upgrading firmware...
Unsupported miner version: Antminer S9

Edit: I see the CONTROL file refers to HWVER S9i so obviously the standard S9 is unsupported in this case. Is there a vanilla S9 supported firmware?

[rz66]

Anyone able to solve the below error whilst trying to flash.

I'm assuming it thinks the machine is the newer S9's

Code:

Uploading firmware...
Unsupported miner version: Antminer S9

Its only compatible with Antminer S9i right now, someone said there was a file you can edit somewhere in the thread to get it to write to a regular S9 (i think ?)

[Toady001]

Its only compatible with Antminer S9i right now, someone said there was a file you can edit somewhere in the thread to get it to write to a regular S9 (i think ?)

Yeah you can edit the control file located in the firmware folder. The item is on line 1: FW_MINER_HWVER="Antminer S9i". Got a spare control board lying around so gonna test the edit

EDIT: So yeah, don't edit the file. Chances are it will brick the vanilla s9. Can't understand why it does that if using the SD card works but oh well.

[fanatic26_]

Yeah you can edit the control file located in the firmware folder. The item is on line 1: FW_MINER_HWVER="Antminer S9i". Got a spare control board lying around so gonna test the edit

EDIT: So yeah, don't edit the file. Chances are it will brick the vanilla s9. Can't understand why it does that if using the SD card works but oh well.

Umm it doesn't brick anything by changing the control file to the s9 from s9i. Thats exactly what I did and I have it running on multiple early batch S9s without an issue.

[rockminer1]

ssh connection is ok. I see firmware from inside but don't know how to load it into the memory

Code:

root@192.168.0.33's password: 

BusyBox v1.25.1 () built-in shell (ash)

   _               _ _              ______   _____
  | |             (_|_)            /  __  \ /  ___|
  | |__  _ __ __ _ _ _ _ __  ___  |  |  |  |  (__
  | '_ \| '__/ _` | | | '_ \/ __| |  |  |  |\__  \
  | |_) | | | (_| | | | | | \__ \ |  |__|  |___)  |
  |_.__/|_|  \__,_|_|_|_| |_|___/  \______/______/   by braiins for slushpool
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Reboot (17.01.4, r3560-79f57e422d)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

root@MINER1122:~#

I try

Code:

python3 upgrade2bos.py 192.168.0.33

after Socket error

and

Code:

$ ssh root@192.168.0.33
root@192.168.0.33's password: 
Connection to 192.168.0.33 closed.

[daniel232388]

Lower fan speed and temp is a result of lower power consumption, achieved using AsicBoost.

i've noticed that my hash rate is lower than normal too. any idea why?

[rz66]

OK start over hehe.. but try with THIS https://feeds.braiins-os.org/braiins-os_am1-s9_2018-10-24-0-9e5687a2.tar.bz2

We are proud to introduce new #BraiinsOS Wolfram🔥. It contains overt #AsicBoost support for all S9's with voltage & frequency control per hashboard.

b: For the time being, we use Bitmain bitstream. However, we are still dedicated to #OpenSourceEverything & make the whole software stack open. 💪

new firmware out with asicboost!!


rockminer1: ^ if you are seeing that the firmware should be loaded, have you tried a web browser to http://192.168.0.33 ??

You are ssh'd to your miner with braiins OS .. you can see if the services are loaded by typing

Code:

ps | grep bin

just shows processes with /usr/bin you will see the httpd daemon/cgminer etc loaded

like this:

Code:

root@MINER:~# ps | grep bin
    1 root      1324 S    /sbin/procd
  991 root       968 S    /sbin/ubusd
  992 root       672 S    /sbin/askfirst /usr/libexec/login.sh
 1066 root      1012 S    /sbin/logd -S 64
 1075 root      1244 S    /sbin/rpcd
 1110 root      1520 S    /sbin/netifd
 1168 root       816 S    /usr/sbin/dropbear -F -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 22 -K 300
 1207 root      1332 S    /usr/sbin/uhttpd -f -h /www -r MINER -x /cgi-bin -u /ubus -t 60 -T 30 -k 20 -A 1 -n 3 -N 100 -R -p
 1265 root      1040 S <  /usr/sbin/ntpd -n -N -S /usr/sbin/ntpd-hotplug -p 0.lede.pool.ntp.org -p 1.lede.pool.ntp.org -p 2.l
 1274 root     30044 S <  /usr/bin/cgminer --default-config /etc/cgminer.conf
 1285 root      2308 S    {cgminer_monitor} /usr/bin/lua /usr/sbin/cgminer_monitor.lua
 1388 root       840 S    /usr/sbin/announce
 9822 root       884 S    /usr/sbin/dropbear -F -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 22 -K 300
20818 root      1036 S    grep bin

you can see above uhttpd/ntpd/cgminer etc are all loaded


::ASICBOOST+Voltage settings added Oct24 release::

Just updated on the console using https://docs.braiins-os.org/#firmware-upgrade

Code:

# download latest packages from feeds server
root@MINER:~# opkg update

Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/zynq/dm1-g19/packages/Packages.gz

*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/zynq/dm1-g19/packages/P                                 ackages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/reboot_base
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/luci/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/reboot_luci
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/luci/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.

Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/miner/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/miner/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/reboot_packages
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/reboot_routing
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/telephony/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/reboot_telephony
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/telephony/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.

Downloading https://feeds.braiins-os.org/am1-s9/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/miner_firmware
Downloading https://feeds.braiins-os.org/am1-s9/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.

Collected errors:
 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/zynq/dm1-g19/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 8.
 * opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/packages/arm_cortex-a9_neon/miner/Packages.gz, wget returned 8.

some sources say failed but some no problem

now upgrade:

Code:

# try to upgrade to the latest firmware
$ opkg install firmware
root@MINER:~# opkg install firmware
Upgrading firmware on root from 2018-09-22-1-8d9b127d to 2018-10-24-0-9e5687a2...
Downloading https://feeds.braiins-os.org/am1-s9/firmware_2018-10-24-0-9e5687a2_arm_cortex-a9_neon.ipk
Running system upgrade...
--2018-10-24 18:04:29--  https://feeds.braiins-os.org/am1-s9/firmware_2018-10-24-0-9e5687a2_arm_cortex-a9_neon.tar
Resolving feeds.braiins-os.org... 185.59.223.23
Connecting to feeds.braiins-os.org|185.59.223.23|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10322271 (9.8M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: '/tmp/sysupgrade.tar'

/tmp/sysupgrade.tar                     100%[===============================================================================>]   9.84M  5.28MB/s    in 1.9s

2018-10-24 18:04:31 (5.28 MB/s) - '/tmp/sysupgrade.tar' saved [10322271/10322271]

Checking firmware compatibility...
Collected errors:
 * opkg_conf_load: Could not lock /var/lock/opkg.lock: Resource temporarily unavailable.
Saving config files...
Connection to 192.168.2.73 closed by remote host.
Connection to 192.168.2.73 closed.

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