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Remove mentions of Litecoin specifically

Luke Dashjr 13 years ago
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4 changed files with 6 additions and 9 deletions
  1. 2 2
      README
  2. 2 5
      SCRYPT-README
  3. 1 1
      configure.ac
  4. 1 1
      miner.c

+ 2 - 2
README

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Options for both config file and command line:
 --scan-time|-s <arg> Upper bound on time spent scanning current work, in seconds (default: 60)
 --sched-start <arg> Set a time of day in HH:MM to start mining (a once off without a stop time)
 --sched-stop <arg>  Set a time of day in HH:MM to stop mining (will quit without a start time)
---scrypt            Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (litecoin only)
+--scrypt            Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (non-bitcoin)
 --sharelog <arg>    Append share log to file
 --shares <arg>      Quit after mining N shares (default: unlimited)
 --socks-proxy <arg> Set socks4 proxy (host:port)
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ SCRYPT only options:
 --lookup-gap <arg>  Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated
 --thread-concurrency <arg> Set GPU thread concurrency for scrypt mining, comma separated
 
-See SCRYPT-README for more information regarding litecoin mining.
+See SCRYPT-README for more information regarding (non-bitcoin) scrypt mining.
 
 
 FPGA mining boards(BitForce, Icarus, ModMiner, Ztex) only options:

+ 2 - 5
SCRYPT-README

@@ -8,11 +8,8 @@ Otherwise, please donate in BTC as per the main README.
 ---
 
 
-Scrypt mining, AKA litecoin mining, for GPU is completely different to sha256
-used for bitcoin mining. The algorithm was originally developed in a manner
-that it was anticipated would make it suitable for mining on CPU but NOT GPU.
-Thanks to some innovative work by Artforz and mtrlt, this was proven to be
-wrong. However, it has very different requirements to bitcoin mining and is a
+Scrypt mining for GPU is completely different to sha256 used for bitcoin
+mining. It has very different requirements to bitcoin mining and is a
 lot more complicated to get working well. Note that it is a ram dependent
 workload, and requires you to have enough system ram as well as fast enough
 GPU ram.

+ 1 - 1
configure.ac

@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAS_ZTEX], [test x$ztex = xyes])
 scrypt="no"
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([scrypt],
-	[AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-scrypt],[Compile support for scrypt litecoin mining (default disabled)])],
+	[AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-scrypt],[Compile support for scrypt mining (default disabled)])],
 	[scrypt=$enableval]
 	)
 if test "x$scrypt" = xyes; then

+ 1 - 1
miner.c

@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static struct opt_table opt_config_table[] = {
 #ifdef USE_SCRYPT
 	OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("--scrypt",
 			opt_set_bool, &opt_scrypt,
-			"Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (litecoin only)"),
+			"Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (non-bitcoin)"),
 #ifdef HAVE_OPENCL
 	OPT_WITH_ARG("--shaders",
 		     set_shaders, NULL, NULL,