TODO file

[Okash Khawaja]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:39:55 +0100
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit:
> > 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct
> > communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc?  
> 
> I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding
> hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA
> cards), so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in
> mainline.
That makes sense.

> 
> > 2. What is status of output buffer getting garbled in SMP systems?
> > Here's the text from TODO file:
> > 
> > "Another issue seems to only happen on SMP systems.  It seems
> > that text in the output buffer gets garbled because a lock is not
> > set. This bug happens regularly, but no one has been able to find a
> > situation which produces it consistently."  
> 
> Since for now we do not really have a reproducer, we can not do much
> code-wise. But one could try to look at making a reproducer. I don't
> think this item would hinder moving speakup to mainline.
Okay great.

I'll shortly send the email out. Thanks a lot for your help!

Okash