AppDB CPU architecture

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AppDB CPU architecture

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Since Microsoft is targeting ARM in main Windows now, ARM laptops are becoming popular, some Linux distributions are coming to ARM, Apple has moved to M1 Chips (and Linux got support to it recently), and more Windows applications will be coming to ARM aswell as x86_64, i guess that a entry to CPU architecture is a must for new test reports.
Before, as Unix-like operating systems were in many platforms, Wine had (and still has) to worry about different architectures like PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS, however, Windows never had support to these architectures so compatibility on Wine were never to be guarantee. But things are to change regarding ARM architectures.

Today we have:
Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Intel/AMD/Nvidia/Other/Unknown
Driver: open source/proprietary/unknown
Even thought CPU emulations exists (GNU/Linux distributions has box86 and box64 and Mac has Rosetta, Windows has a bulit-in emulator aswell), CPU architecture differences will imply on the next tests reports and while another application works in x86_64 architecture, it might fail or be buggy to native ARM architecture, or even emulated x86_64.
With ARM laptops on the market, other GPUs will be becoming popular. Adreno, PowerVR, Mali etc. Wine has "Other" entry for GPU vendor though.

So, to better identify the hardware between the next test reports, we could have:
Hardware tested

Processor:

CPU: Intel/AMD/Snapdragon/Mediatek/Spreadturn/Other/Unknown
Architecture: x86/amd64/ARM/ARM64/Other/Unknown

Graphics:

GPU: Intel/AMD/Nvidia/Adreno/Mali/PowerVR/Other/Unknown
Driver: open source/proprietary/unknown
¿What do you think about it?
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Re: AppDB CPU architecture

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File a bug requesting the enhancement.
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Re: AppDB CPU architecture

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ok :3
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