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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] Cocoa UI always crashes on
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To: Alex =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Bug 1675108 <1675108@bugs.launchpad.net>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Do, 2017-03-23 at 11:31 +0000, Alex Benn=C3=A9e wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>=20
> > On 23 March 2017 at 11:13, Alex Benn=C3=A9e <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wr=
ote:
> >> Technically its not a random thread its the vCPU context (which ensure=
s
> >> the vCPU isn't updating while the display is being updated). But I gue=
ss
> >> the Cocoa is limited to not being able to update from an arbitrary
> >> thread?
> >
> > Yes. It's very common for windowing libraries to mandate that you
> > do all windowing operations from one specific thread.
>=20
> Fair enough. Well let me know if that works OK on MacOS and I'll fold it
> in to the other console patches. In fact I might as well do the
> start/end_exclusive dance for all OSes and it will achieve the same thing=
.

Where do we stand with this one?

cheers,
  Gerd