TODO file

[John Covici]

Correction 4.19.20.

> On Mar 19, 2019, at 7:11 PM, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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