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Software => Operating Systems and Porting => Topic started by: tle on May 11, 2020, 09:55:46 pm

Title: Wine developer starts merging Timothy's sets of patches for ppc64le
Post by: tle on May 11, 2020, 09:55:46 pm

Good to now that Wine developer André Hentschel has started merging patches (https://github.com/madscientist159/wine/commits/master) by Raptor Engineering's Timothy Pearson (aka @madscientist159). See André's mail for more details https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2020-April/165261.html.

Fingercross that version 5.9 or 6.0 would fully support ppc64le

Title: Re: Wine developer starts merging Timothy's sets of patches for ppc64le
Post by: FlyingBlackbird on May 14, 2020, 10:34:45 am

Great news :-)

What I still do not understand is how Windows binaries for Intel x86 CPU instructions sets will execute with Wine on ppc64le which has another CPU instruction set.
I thought that Wine mainly adds the Windows API as compatibility layer to Linux...

Does somebody know this and could explain it here? THX :-)

Title: Re: Wine developer starts merging Timothy's sets of patches for ppc64le
Post by: ClassicHasClass on May 15, 2020, 08:32:49 pm

Well, they won't. Wine is an implementation of the Windows API; it is processor-agnostic. Something like Hangover adds the CPU emulation piece.