On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 03:19:57PM -0500, David Cantrell wrote: [...] > > So I guess this means no remoting into ppc64 or s390x machines from > > x86_64 or ppc64le machines without a configuration tweak? > > We don't have ppc64 builds anymore and I don't know the last release we had > that was ppc64, but it was a long time ago now. All current POWER systems are > ppc64le. > > And everything else we have as primary or alternative architectures is little > endian, except s390x. I do view this as a risk for s390x because of all the > architectures we build for, this one is the most difficult to use graphically. > Exporting your display is still the convenient method for this platform. > > Given that this change proposal affects default behavior, I don't see a > problem with it. s390x users can drop the configuration change in xorg.conf.d > to regain the functionality. If that can be conditionally enabled for s390x > at package build time, that might make things easier (but wouldn't you need to > make the change on both the s390x host and your non-s390x workstation?).
The X protocol works that the first byte of the connection request is a either 'l' or 'B', telling the server that the client is little or Big endian. The client has no information on the server's endianess. This means the configuration needs to be done wherever your X server runs, so the (little-endian) thing you're sitting in front of. Which is also why compile-time defaults are difficult, at compile time we cannot know that eventually you may want to connect from an s390x. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
