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linuxlove · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:59 pm

Does it boot to GUI mode?

johnaddisonuk · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:40 pm

Nice, i'd like another os for my xoom.

Andrew Tapferke · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:27 pm

Press F8

BogdanV · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:14 pm

linuxlove wrote:

Does it boot to GUI mode?

Didn't the last build crash before the boot logo ?

neonsonicboy · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:02 am

I know little about this subject, but what kind of things work internally at this stage?

Derf · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:03 pm

'tis cool I guess, but realistically what good would it be? Just for the sake of getting it running, I suppose?

soulman · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:22 pm

I'm waiting for compatibility with the Allwinner A10. Maybe even the RasPi. ReactOS on a tablet would be fun indeed.

ben1066 · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:14 pm

I'd quite like the source of this. Or the required patches.

soulman · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:53 pm

Go look on their SVN. I believe they still use SVN anyway.

ben1066 · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:23 am

Last I checked, ARM wasn't actively maintained, and it shouldn't be being done in trunk, so unless someone has a branch I've missed.

z180 · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:59 am

NetBSD is easier to port to that and other ARM hardware,it runs already on Apple's Time Capsule and a few their routers(old ARM9) but the HW dependent code is not FOSS.
The project scrapped the old Darwin kernel interface emulation and a few others like OSF/1 for 6.0.
If someone brings that back and adds ARM specific code he can run Apples binaries and their GUI like I ran Linux programs on my NetBSD x86.

wjack12 · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:59 pm

A potential problem I see with this is that the programs for ReactOS (Firefox, Opera, VLC, etc.) are written for x86, not ARM. Maybe use some Windows CE programs?

hounsell · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:38 pm

wjack12 wrote:

A potential problem I see with this is that the programs for ReactOS (Firefox, Opera, VLC, etc.) are written for x86, not ARM. Maybe use some Windows CE programs?

Windows CE Programs use a different API - It's Win32-like, but not Win32. As long as the programs have been written sensibly, and source is available, porting "x86" programs might not be as hard as you think.

claunia · **Post subject:** Re: ReactOS on ARM. **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:11 pm

That would be a great port.

A full Win32 API, not the horribly thing that Metro is, for ARM!

But I don't quite see the usefulness of it on a touchscreen, more on something like the Genesi Smartbook or the Raspberry Pi.

Of course the apps would be a problem, but as PE is already supported on ARM (although compilers currently target only WinCE API), it wouldn't be so difficult to port opensource ones.

ReactOS on ARM.

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