I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.
How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast. So I guess it could now read:
Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?
Sure I hoped 0.96 would have fix the restart/flushwork issue but I think they have to much things on their plate, like focusing on hw issues.
Sure they could have done better e.g involved ckolivas/kano/luke-jr in the dev phase, but all in all considering the tight schedule the only thing I could blame knc for boils down to lack of communcation