From 37e157a11c3fc731dfdcf6ec6b6a5a448550219b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vanfanel Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:15:26 +0200 Subject: SDL/DISPMANX Make additional notes on README.RASPBERRYPI telling users to manually disable some features that are sub-optimal on the Pi when they don't pass a host parameter --- backends/platform/sdl/raspberrypi/README.RASPBERRYPI | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'backends/platform') diff --git a/backends/platform/sdl/raspberrypi/README.RASPBERRYPI b/backends/platform/sdl/raspberrypi/README.RASPBERRYPI index 82217b7d7d..f8d872b519 100644 --- a/backends/platform/sdl/raspberrypi/README.RASPBERRYPI +++ b/backends/platform/sdl/raspberrypi/README.RASPBERRYPI @@ -79,10 +79,17 @@ cd ./configure --enable-dispmanx -disable-debug --enable-release --enable-optimizations --disable-mt32emu --disable-flac --disable-mad --disable-vorbis ---disable-tremor --disable-fluidsynth --disable-taskbar --disable-timidity --disable-alsa +--disable-tremor --disable-fluidsynth --disable-taskbar --disable-timidity --disable-alsa +--disable-scalers --disable-hq-scalers --disable-savegame-timestamp --disable-eventrecorder make +As you can see, we're manually disabling scalers because we prefer dispmanx for that, which +makes scalers unnecessary on a CPU limited platform like this, timestamps because most people +doesn't have an RTC on the Raspberry Pi, and event recorder to save SD card write cycles. +All these are automatically disabled when we crosscompile by passing "--host=raspberrypi", +which is not the case. + ¡¡It will be an SLOW process, taking several hours to complete, unless you are running distcc against a fast compilation server!! -- cgit v1.2.3