I should set it up as a proper fork anyway but just have avoided spending time on that.
Yeah, create a fork on github, make sure you pull in from CK's regularly and send him a push request when you're happy enough to merge it back in.
That's what I was thinking but I already had a cgminer fork for my personal GPU mining. I had to do a bit of googling but found out how to create a second fork, and have done that. It's called
cgminer-klondike and contains driver development sources. I've also kept the cgminer directory in the klondike repo with hard links to the files that have changed. That way users can see right away what's different, but also by cloning/forking from cgminer-klondike they can build the full program with: ./autogen.sh --enable-klondike
Seems to be some funny business tonight with github IP changes so I'll be holding off but expect soon to update the klondike repo with current firmware and driver changes. They're by no means complete. I'm sure I need to add some more code to the driver to support API info properly and also selecting cgminer screens other than the main one seem to cause it to lock up. Not sure why but I expect it has something to do with the driver being incomplete.