TextureInfo hashes textures and palettes with libretro-common's
xxh64(), the same value XXH64() gives, so dumped and custom texture
names stay as they are. The pipeline hash helpers nothing calls are
gone, and with them Externals/xxhash.
VKHeap.c takes large blocks from the driver and hands out offsets in
them: the lowest free span that fits, spans kept sorted so a free is a
binary search and a merge. The handle is a small struct kept by value,
so nothing is allocated per allocation. Host-visible blocks are mapped
once and stay mapped; stream buffers and staging buffers write straight
into the memory the GPU reads. Buffers and linear images keep to blocks
of their own, apart from optimal images. What the driver requires or
prefers dedicated, and anything of half a block or more, gets memory of
its own sized to fit. Host blocks are 16 MiB, device blocks 64 MiB, and
neither more than an eighth of its driver heap; one empty block of each
kind is kept and the rest go back to the driver.
The Vulkan Memory Allocator is gone, and with it the memory budget
extension only it used.
None of these run in the core: UPnP served NetPlay; the DInput, XInput,
WGInput, Win32, Quartz, Xlib, evdev and Pipes input backends are never
enabled, since input comes from libretro; and disc conversion, with its
multithreaded compressor, was only reached from DolphinTool. The WIA,
RVZ and GCZ readers stay.
The core never creates a NetPlay client or server; only the standalone
frontends did. Drop NetPlay with what only it used: the traversal
client, ENet, the QoS session, the NetPlay config layer and settings,
the chat and golf overlays, the netplay index, the save sync plumbing
in BootSessionData and WiiRoot, the disc sync hashes, and the Android
app's netplay feature and JNI bindings.
The core only ever outputs through libretro, so drop the ALSA, cubeb,
null, OpenAL, OpenSL ES, PulseAudio and WASAPI streams, the backend
selection, and the vendored cubeb and OpenAL. SoundStream is now one
non-virtual class, implemented by the libretro output in
DolphinLibretro/Audio.cpp.
Also drop the settings only the backends read (backend, volume, mute,
mute on disabled speed limit, latency, WASAPI device) and the volume
and mute helpers. The mute-on-fast-forward toggle never had an effect,
as the libretro stream ignored volume changes.
The GameCube microphone, Wii Speak and Logitech mic keep their libretro
microphone path; the unbuilt cubeb capture path and its Windows COM
worker thread go.
Dolby Pro Logic II decoding (SurroundDecoder, FreeSurround) stays.
The core runs only inside a libretro frontend. The Qt frontend and its
submodule go, together with what only it used: the Qt DBus screensaver
inhibit, the JIT's single-block erase, the string translator hook, the
Qt translation catalogs and Transifex config, the desktop packaging
(NSIS, RPM, Flatpak) and the autoupdate overview.
The core takes its input from the libretro frontend and never builds the
SDL controller backend. The SDL submodule, the backend, its config entries
and the SDL hints and version bits of the Qt frontend go.
Due to an oversight in our CMakeLists, pkg-config would attempt to find *minizip* 3.0.0 (which doesn't exist) instead of *minizip-ng* 3.0.0, or at least it was on my Manjaro Linux machine. This has been fixed. The new submodule is using minizip-ng 3.0.4, the same version that was being used before.
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