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Commit b142c81d authored by xoomdev's avatar xoomdev
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frameworks/base: Add an option to disable hw acceleration via system prop. 

Hardware accelerated graphics on devices without updated proprietary files
and/or drivers is causing graphics glitches and reboots. Add the ability
to disable it to alleviate the problems until each device can support it.

Change-Id: I2506d42be6bd5a32fab7380e89817e8b9f7b074b
parent 0c222c2d

core/java/android/app/ActivityManager.java

+23 −16
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@@ -212,10 +212,16 @@ public class ActivityManager { 
    /**

     * Used by persistent processes to determine if they are running on a

     * higher-end device so should be okay using hardware drawing acceleration

     * (which tends to consume a lot more RAM).

     * (which tends to consume a lot more RAM). Alternatively, setting

     * ro.config.disable_hw_accel=true disables hardware acceleration even if the

     * device meets the other criteria since not all devices currently have

     * the ability to support it.

     * @hide

     */

    static public boolean isHighEndGfx(Display display) {

        if (SystemProperties.get("ro.config.disable_hw_accel").equals("true")) {

            return false;

        } else {

            MemInfoReader reader = new MemInfoReader();

            reader.readMemInfo();

            if (reader.getTotalSize() >= (512*1024*1024)) {
@@ -233,6 +239,7 @@ public class ActivityManager { 
            }

            return false;

        }

    }



    /**

     * Use to decide whether the running device can be considered a "large