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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