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Daily upstream sync: layer/ENGINE moves from nxnative c4ffb9d to 084f5aa (40 commits). See the CHANGELOG 0.26.0 entry for the details.

What changed in the layer

• 8 of the 11 patches had to be carried over by hand (host-player, host-threads, gfx-metal, shader-tools, games, docs, and upstream-pr-1615's switch table).
• Dropped NXForge's uniform-only argument-table copy (DM_NVN_CB_FAST / DM_NVN_CB_CHECK), because upstream now patches those blocks itself (adaff73).
• Took upstream's graphics-scale tier 0 change (PR The graphics scale is tier 0 in both modes: Star Fox's docked 3D was 768x432, smaller than handheld seedds/nxnative#1304) in place of NXForge's copy.
• Kept, merged into upstream's new code:
  • the compute-pipeline prefetch, now under upstream's border-correction keys (511a0a2)
  • the DLSS size log
  • the pool heap
  • obj_is_tex
  • the command-buffer notes on the new commit options
• Shader chain 3e887b940f3a.
• Switch table: NXForge's switch meanings restored, and upstream's new DM_NVN_VCONV_KEEP row filled in. Upstream PR GPU memory guard: measure the residency set, and take pending removals off it (stacked on #1392; PRAGMATA on an 8 GB Mac) seedds/nxnative#1615's lint finding (an unused dmsh_fetch import) is added to the Python lint baseline.

Watched games

• Ocarina of Time, merged in this range: The graphics scale is tier 0 in both modes: Star Fox's docked 3D was 768x432, smaller than handheld seedds/nxnative#1304 (2560x1440 docked), Hash shared pool pages before opening them for CPU writes seedds/nxnative#2136, Unused border corrections are compiled out of pipelines that bind no sampler with a twin (function constant DMSH_BORDER_FC) seedds/nxnative#1929/Pixel shaders without the border-colour correction in their main library, on the shared side-library compile seedds/nxnative#1203 (border corrections compiled out), No pulling stand-ins for predicted keys with a made base seedds/nxnative#2262, Switch 2 games' uniform reads are not bounded by the binding's size seedds/nxnative#2219, A raw HID pad GameController only promised takes a player at its first button press: a Keychron Link no longer takes player 1 (#1657) seedds/nxnative#1685, A NaN colour at alpha 0 is returned as 0, as NVIDIA's blender takes a zero factor: Ocarina of Time's white clouds over the ferns are gone seedds/nxnative#2030, Avoid repeated archive scans for missing pipeline bases seedds/nxnative#1825.
• Ocarina of Time, still open upstream: feature: [Ocarina of Time 2026] Added support LayeredFS and game updates seedds/nxnative#2305, Ocarina of Time's chained upscaler (agl_ndsr_vr) through MetalFX seedds/nxnative#1951, Fix Ocarina of Time frame ratio calculation and enable frame buffering (0400486024DEC000) seedds/nxnative#1996, SDK 21 / 22 input streams capture the Mac's microphone (Ocarina of Time's Ocarina Mic Input) seedds/nxnative#1908, Ocarina of Time prewarm rows recorded on an iPhone 18 Pro Max (from HookLink) seedds/nxnative#2017, Ocarina of Time: enc_thread on, the replay encodes on a thread of its own seedds/nxnative#1928, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time renders native ultrawide (21:9) with DM_ULTRAWIDE seedds/nxnative#1460, Ocarina of Time's prewarm list gets 15 more task / mesh pipelines recorded on a MacBook M1 seedds/nxnative#2280, The pipeline prebuild also builds the prewarm lists, and the prepare step hands its tasks out in turn by vertex shader seedds/nxnative#2193.
• Mario Kart World: 707cac9, resized dynamic-resolution textures now reuse recycled heaps.

Tests

• Cloud tool tests:
  • test_docs and test_env_switches pass.
  • NXForge's own tests pass.
  • The remaining failures are the same set as on an untouched 084f5aa worktree: Linux-only tools such as xcrun, lz4 and libproc.
• Mac graphics tests and smoke are next.

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