• Bug#1104558: Please enable ntsync support in Linux kernel 6.14

    From Piotr Morgwai Kotarbinski@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 2 07:10:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.kernel

    Source: linux
    Version: 6.14.3
    Severity: wishlist
    X-Debbugs-Cc: foss@morgwai.pl

    ntsync is a new driver included in kernel 6.14, it significantly improves Wine performance (usually 40-200% according to the author: https://lwn.net/Articles/962325/ ). Unfortunately it is currently disabled in 6.14.3-1~exp1, so users are forced to rebuild the whole kernel just to enable it: see https://wiki.debian.org/Wine/NtsyncHowto . The corresponding config param: CONFIG_NTSYNC.

    Thanks!


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.14.3-ntsync (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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