Changes in the driver and world system:
* Rewrite driver logic to include more advanced concepts. The notion of
binding a driver to a device is introduced to formalize wait(); power
management is now built-in instead of being handled by the drivers
(for instance DMA). The new driver model is described in great detail
in <gint/drivers.h>
* Formalized the concept of "world switch" where the hardware state is
saved and later restored. As a tool, the world switch turns out to be
very stable, and allows a lot of hardware manipulation that would be
edgy at best when running in the OS world.
* Added a GINT_DRV_SHARED flag for drivers to specify that their state
is shared between worlds and not saved/restored. This has a couple of
uses.
* Exposed a lot more of the internal driver/world system as their is no
particular downside to it. This includes stuff in <gint/drivers.h>
and the driver's state structures in <gint/drivers/states.h>. This is
useful for debugging and for cracked concepts, but there is no
API stability guarantee.
* Added a more flexible driver level system that allows any 2-digit
level to be used.
Feature changes:
* Added a CPU driver that provides the VBR change as its state save.
Because the whole context switch relied on interrupts being disabled
anyway, there is no longer an inversion of control when setting the
VBR; this is just part of the CPU driver's configuration. The CPU
driver may also support other features such as XYRAM block transfer
in the future.
* Moved gint_inthandler() to the INTC driver under the name
intc_handler(), pairing up again with intc_priority().
* Added a reentrant atomic lock based on the test-and-set primitive.
Interrupts are disabled with IMASK=15 for the duration of atomic
operations.
* Enabled the DMA driver on SH7305-based fx-9860G. The DMA provides
little benefit on this platform because the RAM is generally faster
and buffers are ultimately small. The DMA is still not available on
SH3-based fx-9860G models.
* Solved an extremely obnoxious bug in timer_spin_wait() where the
timer is not freed, causing the callback to be called when interrupts
are re-enabled. This increments a random value on the stack. As a
consequence of the change, removed the long delays in the USB driver
since they are not actually needed.
Minor changes:
* Deprecated some of the elements in <gint/hardware.h>. There really is
no good way to "enumerate" devices yet.
* Deprecated gint_switch() in favor of a new function
gint_world_switch() which uses the GINT_CALL abstraction.
* Made the fx-9860G VRAM 32-aligned so that it can be used for tests
with the DMA.
Some features of the driver and world systems have not been implemented
yet, but may be in the future:
* Some driver flags should be per-world in order to create multiple
gint worlds. This would be useful in Yatis' hypervisor.
* A GINT_DRV_LAZY flag would be useful for drivers that don't want to
be started up automatically during a world switch. This is relevant
for drivers that have a slow start/stop sequence. However, this is
tricky to do correctly as it requires dynamic start/stop and also
tracking which world the current hardware state belongs to.
* Define dgray() to replace gray_start() and gray_stop()
* Introduce a mechanism to override the d*() functions rather than using
another set of functions, namely g*(). Gray rendering should now be
done with d*() (a compatibility macro for g*() is available until v2.1).
* Gray engine now reserves TMU0 at the start of the add-in to prevent
surprises if timers are exhausted, so it nevers fails to start
* Replace other gray engine functions with dgray_*()
* More general rendering functions (in render/) to lessen the burden of
porting them to the gray engine. As a consequence, dtext_opt(),
dprint_opt() and drect_border() are now available in the gray engine,
which was an omission from 230b796.
* Allow C_NONE in more functions, mainly on fx-CG 50
* Remove the now-unused dupdate_noint()
Since both platforms now have their VBR and gint-specific data loaded
along the add-in's data, the .gint.data section is entirely unused.
The .gint.bss section is still used for uninitialized objects (it has
different semantics than .bss which is initially cleared) and the
.gint.data.sh3 and .gint.bss.sh3 sections that are dropped on the
SH4-only fx-CG 50 are also still used.
This macro used to protect the declaration of the [vram] variable of
gint. This variable was short to keep drawing functions short but could
clutter the namespace.
That being said, it's even better to just [#define vram gint_vram] if
you need. This change renames the variable to [gint_vram], exposes it
whenever <gint/display.h> is included, and removes the GINT_NEED_VRAM
macro altogether.
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