TODO file

[John Covici]

I do know thatwith 4.9.20, index marks are lost when the cpu is even
moderately busy -- I wonder if  thismightberelated?

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:39:55 -0400,
Samuel Thibault 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Samuel
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