Vas Crabb

> > It would be even perfect to be able to select GLX or EGL in runtime (during initialization), but I personally would be happy to have compile-time selection. >...

> Patch sent, explanation of why I treat process as "critical section" https://www.octavianit.com/2024/02/fixing-galaxian-sound-on-arm-8-core.html Consider the code where `discrete_task::process` is called from `discrete_task::callback`: ```c++ /* try to lock */ if (task->lock_threadid(threadid))...

@seleuco tested it after #12034 was merged and can no longer reproduce the issue.

> Not sure why you reopened it; acquire instead of release appears to have fixed the issue. But _thanks_ for your insight. It was automatically closed by GitHub because the...

This does look like a big simplification that will be nice to get in.

For expediency and to get things moving, I cribbed a bunch of the easier parts in 665c0048cd4abd5c5f435975104d2e79d0327bcd. Parts I grabbed: * Fixes for SPI SD Card (it would be nice...

Switching who controls screen timings is something MAME really isn’t good at. The only way I can think of implementing it right now would be to have some member function...

Is it just a case of the organisation being different which could be addressed during ROM loading? It would be good if someone could give this a look and see...

> That said, they have the exact same content. So the question is, do we keep a clone for this PROM arrangement? It may be useful for people repairing systems...

FWIW you could use a BIOS option to load one arrangement of PROMs or the other and avoid the need for a clone.