https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52493
Bug ID: 52493 Summary: CPU architecture entry on AppDB test reports Product: WineHQ Apps Database Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: appdb-unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: joseskvolpe@gmail.com Distribution: ---
I've talk about it on the forum https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36163&p=135972#p135972
Today, AppDb only asks us for GPU and GPU driver on the hardware section before posting data reports. With the adoption of ARM architecture on mainline Windows and popularization of ARM laptops, more Windows applications will be released for ARM architecture aswell, some Linux distributions are being ported to ARM too.
That means, before Wine did had compatibility on other CPU architectures but Windows applications didn't had it, so tests reports were mostly focused for x86 architectures and other architectures had 0 guarantee to be supported, things are about to change today with x64 and ARM becoming supported by Microsoft.
There's options to emulate x86 and x64 architectures on ARM, even on Windows. There's Rosetta on MacOS and box86/box64 on GNU/Linux. However, emulators aren't perfect and CPU architecturse, emulated or natively, are going to imply in app compatibility and in future test reports. While another application might work perfect on x86, it might fail or be buggy in ARM both natively or emulated, even if the application has support to it. To prevent confusion on the next reports, we'll need to leave CPU architectures in consideration.
¿What do you think about it?