Using an invalid SP makes Vita crash (for an unkown reason) and makes
things like C signal handlers crash (luckily Retroarch doesn't use
them). It is also a violation of the ABI and not a great idea.
Recycled some little used registers to free SP. Perf should be roughly
the same.
Was not writing to the right address (but decoded memory was working).
Most game worked well except those that depend on modifying the existing
palette bits (instead of copying from ROM/RAM). Fixes several games.
Seems that using the __atribute__ magic for sections is not the best way
of doing this, since it injects some default atributtes that collide
with the user defined ones. Using assembly is far easier in this case.
Reworked definitions a bit to make it easier to import from assembly.
Also wrapped stuff around macros for easy and less verbose
implementation of the symbol prefix issue.
This saves a few cycles in MIPS and simplifies a bit the core.
Removed the write map, only affects interpreter performance very
minimally. Rewired ARM and x86 handlers to support direct access to
I/EWRAM (and VRAM on ARM) to compensate. Overall performance is slightly
better but code is cleaner and allows for further improvements in the
dynarecs.
Add options to select whether to boot from BIOS (default is no, as it is
now) and whether to use the original bios or the builtin one (default is
auto, which tries to use the official but falls back to the builtin if
not found).
Added a more thorough cache cleanup for reset/mode-change too.
Fixed the mmap initialization that ends up leaking memory.
Minor x86 asm fixes for Android.
This is not really necessary since it can share area with ROM.
Performance impact should be very minimal (haven't noticed it myself)
and could be compensated (even by a positive offset) if we bump the ROM
cache area size.
Tested with several dynarecs.
Uses a different cache primitive and a differend madd(u) encoding.
Also added a flag for BGR vs RGB color output (since PSP is assuming to
be BGR for speed).
Aside from that the ABI required some special function calls for PIC.
This allows us to emit the handlers directly in a more efficient manner.
At the same time it allows for an easy fix to emit PIC code, which is
necessary for libretro. This also enables more platform specific
optimizations and variations, perhaps even run-time multiplatform
support.
David Guillen Fandos
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