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Subject: Re: include tag in uname -s for ARM64 hosts
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On 20/11/2024 19:34, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> I mentioned this briefly on cygwin-patches during the review of the fix
> for a deadlock when running under emulation on ARM64 hosts, but I wanted
> to discuss it more thoroughly here now that that is merged.
> 
> It seems like it would be useful, perhaps for stats tracking purposes like
> MSYS2 does [1], to indicate when Cygwin is running under emulation in
> uname.  When i686 Cygwin was supported, there was a `-WOW64` tag appended
> to the sysname field (uname -s) when it was running under WOW64, so it
> seems to make sense to me to do something similar (say, appending
> `-ARM64`).

We already collect some limited, anonymized stats from our setup program 
(see [1]), which show that ARM64 hardware is still rare.

[1] https://cygwin.com/setup-report.txt


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