Bug#1124798: linux: Please enable CONFIG_NTSYNC on arm64

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <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