They appear to relate to perf queries, and combining them with truely unknown commands would probably hide useful information. Furthermore, 0x20 is issued by every title, so without this every title would be recorded as using an unknown command, which is very unhelpful.
The swaps are confusing and don't accomplish much.
It was originally written like this:
u32 pte = bswap(*(u32*)&base_mem[pteg_addr]);
then bswap was changed to Common::swap32, and then the array access
was replaced with Memory::Read_U32, leading to the useless swaps.
While 6xx_pem.pdf §7.6.1.1 mentions that the number of trailing
zeros in HTABORG must be equal to the number of trailing ones
in the mask (i.e. HTABORG must be properly aligned), this is actually
not a hard requirement. Real hardware will just OR the base address
anyway. Ignoring SDR changes would lead to incorrect emulation.
Logging a warning instead of dropping the SDR update silently is a
saner behaviour.
Modify the CMakeLists.txt so that it doesn't try to use a shared zstd library
that doesn't have header files. This was a support issue on Macs because
homebrew was installing headerless zstd libraries with Qt.
debaf63fe8 moved the "Sonic epsilon hack"
to vertex shaders. However, it was only done for targets with depth
clamping. If this is not available, for example the target is OpenGL ES,
the Sonic problem appears (https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11897).
A version of the "Sonic epsilon hack" is added for targets without
depth clamping.
This changes FileSystemProxy::Open to return a file descriptor wrapper
that will ensure the FD is closed when it goes out of scope.
By using such a wrapper we make it more difficult to forget to close
file descriptors.
This fixes a leak in ReadBootContent. I should have added such a class
from the beginning... In practice, I don't think this would have caused
any obvious issue because ReadBootContent is only called after an IOS
relaunch -- which clears all FDs -- and most titles do not get close
to the FD limit.
JitArm64::DoJit contains a check where it prints a warning and tries
to pause emulation if instructed to compile code at address 0. I'm
assuming this was done in order to provide a nicer error behavior
in cases where PC was accidentally set to null. Unfortunately, it
has started causing us problems recently, as 688bd61 writes and runs
some code at address 0 to simulate the PPC being held in reset.
What makes this worse is that calling Core::SetState from the CPU
thread is actually not allowed and will cause a deadlock instead of
the intended behavior. I don't believe there is anything on a real
console that would stop you from executing code at address 0 (as
long as the MMU has been set up to allow it), and Jit64::DoJit
doesn't contain any check like this, so let's remove the check.
Many Android users want to disable SyncOnSkipIdle as a performance
hack, to the point where it's often suggested as something to
paste into Dolphin.ini (if not to use a fork). If adding it as
a setting in the GUI gives us an opportunity to explain what the
setting actually does and stops people from pasting stuff they
don't understand into INI files, I think it can be worth adding
despite how it can make games unstable. It not being in the GUI
doesn't seem to be stopping people from disabling it anyway.
The added setting in the GUI is a three-way setting called
"Synchronize GPU Thread" with the following alternatives:
"Never": SyncGPU = False, SyncOnIdleSkip = False
"On Idle Skipping": SyncGPU = False, SyncOnIdleSkip = True
"Always": SyncGPU = True, SyncOnIdleSkip = True
See PR 8203 for background on the game INI deletion prompt.
It's been almost two years since PR 8203 was merged, so you
would think that people are no longer creating game INIs that
contain a copy of every global setting, right? Unfortunately,
MMJ was forked not too long before that and never backported the
change, so right now there's a not insignificant number of people
online posting game INIs full of this garbage for others to use.
One thing that's been missing from the game INI deletion prompt
is a description of what the problem with having tons of extra
lines in a game INI actually is. This change adds that, in the
the hope that it will make people ignore the warning less often.
This option does in fact not enable and disable logging as a whole.
You can get logs through logcat regardless of this setting.
Also taking the opportunity to remove the reference to
the "dolphin-emu" folder name since we will no longer be
using that folder once scoped storage is applied to Dolphin.
Pokechu22