Hey @Skot, have a look; GekkoScience just released a BM1397-based pod miner!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5423227.0I'm trying to get my hands on one as soon as they're available to buy. I'd like to mine a bit on it, but would probably also be able to get some serial traces off it for our open-source project.
I'd much rather buy this than an old, used S17 which may even arrive broken.
I would also love to have Serial trace from your pod, when possible !
The offical S17 trace is also important as there may reveal some Antminer secret on the BM1397 (Antminer FPGA control board with secret Firmware, controling Antminer ASIC using Antminer undocumented protocol). The Gekko/Kano trace will not reveal more that the Kano cgminer sourcecode is already exposing. Thats why the Braiins OS+ trace is also interesting, Braiins may use some reverted secret on the control protocol, and not published the source code (except for the Braiins OS (without +) with less feature).
I'm also excited to see these changes to cgminer by kano. We will have to look into individual chip tuning as well, once the single-chip device works and we try out the first multi-chip boards.
[Kano] has been working on adding tuning features which include setting individual chip frequencies. Core voltage is adjustable in the range of 1.4V-1.6V per chip.
This will be very instructive indeed !