Looking for Ryzen owners to test SHA acceleration.
Ryzen CPUs have HW accelerated SHA, something Intel's mainstream CPUs won't have until Cannonlake.
Requirements:
Ryzen CPU
Linux
Compiler version with support for sha
Openssl development package with support for sha
Cpuminer-opt source code with support for sha
I can provide the last one. GCC is supposed to have support for -msha starting in v 5, and Openssl added support in 2014
so both should be available in Ubuntu 16.04.
The following algos use sha256 and should benefit from HW acceleration: sha256t, lbry, skein, myr-groestl, m7m.