wiiu: Improve SDL_UpdateTexture performance + add max texture size#97
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GaryOderNichts merged 2 commits intodevkitPro:wiiu-sdl2-2.28from May 25, 2025
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According to https://www.x.org/docs/AMD/old/R6xx_R7xx_3D.pdf in section 1.3 (page 6), GX2 supports textures of up to 8192x8192 resolution.
When possible, use the DMA to copy the whole texture data at once, this improves performance by nearly 15x in the best case. In all other cases, use OSBlockMove instead of the base memcpy implementation for a ~1.5x speedup in the slowest path.
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SDL_UpdateTextureis often used in software rendered games for uploading the game's current framebuffer to the GPU for display. This PR greatly improves performance by using optimized memory copy routines from the OS and DMA transfer when possible.Speedup is anywhere between 1.5x and 15x faster than the original implementation.
This PR also adds the missing max texture size for games that might rely on it, based on AMD GPU documentation close to GX2 found here: https://www.x.org/docs/AMD/old/R6xx_R7xx_3D.pdf.