[Bug 52493] New: CPU architecture entry on AppDB test reports

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

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: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      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?

[Bug 52493] CPU architecture entry on AppDB test reports

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52493

--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp  ---
> Linux distributions are being ported to ARM too

The Linux distributions (chosen by the submitter) are already separated into
architectures when submitting a bug report. Another field would be superfluous.

New distributions can be submitted by the same user (and probably cleaned up by
one of the admin team).