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   Salvatore Bonaccorso to Chris Hofstaedtler   
   Bug#1124798: linux: Please enable CONFIG   
   07 Jan 26 12:50:01   
   
   XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist   
   From: carnil@debian.org   
      
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   HI Chris,   
      
   On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 11:30:05AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:   
   > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 06:54:06AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:   
   > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 10:29:53PM +0100, Chris Hofstädtler wrote:   
   > > > Source: linux   
   > > > Severity: wishlist   
   > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org   
   > > > User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org   
   > > > Usertags: arm64   
   > > >   
   > > > Hi,   
   > > >   
   > > > please enable CONFIG_NTSYNC on arm64, like it is done on amd64   
   > > > already. wine / box64 will need it.   
   > >   
   > > Does this make sense to enable only on arm64 additionally or is there   
   > > reasons to make the module available as well on other architectures?   
   >   
   > Honestly I'm not sure. TTBOMK wine directly won't run on anything   
   > else than i386, amd64, arm64.   
   >   
   > But there's some info on the box64 blog about running translated   
   > games on looong64, possibly with wine or proton -inside- box64. That   
   > would again need CONFIG_NTSYNC.   
   >   
   > So maybe it makes sense to enable this on everything that can   
   > reasonably to be expected to run games.   
      
   Thanks for the input. I expect we can discuss this tonight in the team   
   meeting. My preference would then be to only additionally enable it   
   for now on arm64 as requested, as I do not know the state for looong64   
   for this aspect.   
      
   Regards,   
   Salvatore   
      
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