Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:30 AM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This might not be as niche as you might think. I'm one of the
> Linux kernel maintainers for s390. Many of us do the vast majority of
> their development work natively on s390 systems via SSH from Fedora
> laptops. After all mainframes are pretty damn fast at compiling with
> plenty of memory and dog fooding is part of quality control. And I'm
> sure it's not just the teams working on the Linux kernel but also
> plenty of other people working with s390 Linux machines. These s390
> machines mostly only host X servers via VNC and usually just for the
> installation but they do that too. There is also a hand full of X
> clients I run on s390 which are essential for my and many of my
> colleagues daily workflows. The most important one is defintely
> xsel/xclip to copy from the (neo-)vim/tmux I use for coding to my local
> system. Some people also use x3270 via SSH X forwarding from jumphosts,
> others use XEmacs. I also know essential internal tools that are run on
> s390 hosts via X forwarding. Sure people using X forwarding are capable
> of changing configuration defaults but if at all possible I would
> suggest to rethink this, as it will create significant hassle for
> anyone using their Fedora systems to SSH + X forward to s390 Linux
> hosts and it definitely sees more use and thus testing than the
> proposal makes it sound.
>

How bad would it be to force little-endian for the X protocol
regardless of architecture?

regardless of architecture?



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