Hacking Suggestion Can Somebody Test To Install Windows 10 Arm Edition On Switch?

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Hacker has been success to install Windows 10 Arm Edition on Raspberry Pi 3 and Lumia phone like NTAuthority.

Can someone test install Windows 10 arm edition on switch or using qemu/virtualbox/vmware under linux/ubuntu on switch.

you can found Windows 10 RS4 AIO iso with x86/x64/arm on piratebay and other torrent sites. Windows 10 arm edition can run x86 windows apps.

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Hacker has been success to install Windows 10 Arm Edition on Raspberry Pi 3 and Lumia phone like NTAuthority.

Can someone test install Windows 10 arm edition on switch or using qemu/virtualbox/vmware under linux/ubuntu on switch.

you can found Windows 10 RS4 AIO iso with x86/x64/arm on piratebay and other torrent sites. Windows 10 arm edition can run x86 windows apps.

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Wow it'll amazing if someone can run it on switch
 

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Pretty sure that only works on Snapdragon.

Nope hacker called NTAuthority has been success to install windows 10 arm edition on Pi 3 just use google...and other hacker has been succes to install windows 10 arm on Lumia 950.

Switch is 10x powerfull than Raspberry Pi 3 and Lumia 950.
 

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It’s a free download though? Your not pirating a license ? Or I’m wrong ? Don’t mean to sound rude.!
i more meant even mentioning that website, temp is EXTREMELY against piracy so even namedropping those sites is really risky.
We better call the cops!
you might wanna take the rules more seriously if you care about your account.
 

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it is technically possible, but the hangup is going to be that there are no drivers for the Switch hardware. Linux uses the *nix generic interface model for the most part, where it just sends commands to a port and expects the device on the other end to know what to do with it. Windows goes the other way, allowing some of the heavy lifting to be done on the computer where there's usually more processing power. There are some generic drivers for Windows, but for the most part, you need some that are specific to a particular bit of hardware. I doubt Nintendo is going to make something like Apple's Bootcamp for the Switch, and I don't know if the technical documentation for the Tegra X1 available from nVidia is good enough for someone to write said drivers if they wanted to.
 

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Linux uses the *nix generic interface model for the most part, where it just sends commands to a port and expects the device on the other end to know what to do with it. Windows goes the other way, allowing some of the heavy lifting to be done on the computer where there's usually more processing power.

Linux and Windows work in very a similar way. On PC's you can end up with a generic driver which changes resolution using VESA and uses the CPU to render everything, or you install a specific driver which uses all the functionality of the hardware. I don't know if there is a something like VESA that is supported by Windows 10 on Arm, but it's unlikely that the switch will support it.

Writing a driver wouldn't be that hard. It comes down to how much effort someone is willing to put into it. It would be much more interesting than Linux though.
 
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While looking for android on tegra information, i did come across some information which leads me to believe it is probably possible to get it to load. That doesn't mean it will by any means, or that anything will even display or that drivers exist for said system.

It may be possible to use an old trick to get it to boot windows though. The source for the linux kernel (i think it was the kernel) used on the switch includes the device tree for certain hardware or all of it (didnt thoroughly look at it all). This includes addresses that what i assume in my (before uefi) understanding are something like irq locations etc a bios use to map hardware, while also importing values from the tegra210.dtsi which seems to be related. If that is the case, it is similar to using a custom dsdt to fake device ids with compatible ones or fix other problems while doing something like Hackintosh. So something may eventually be cooked up.

That being said, it may be possible using coreboot/u-boot to do some custom job in loading some other stuff up like the Linux kernel. I'll probably fiddle with it myself for fun. I just wouldn't expect releases of Android 5, Windows ARM v{whatever}, etc. any time in the near future. You may hear developments from some people though, just don't get your hopes up until you see some stickies.

There are still a lot of things to iron out even with Linux seen up and running emulators. Plenty of patches to be made to improve the stability, performance, and versatility of the Switch's hardware.

Anyway, that's all I have to say on this or other OS topics.
 
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I dont think you will be able to do much with wind10 ARM, as tested with the powerful snapdragon 835 which is far ahead in CPU power compared to the Switch and around as much GPU power as the tegra X1, on Wind10 arm the X86 apps work worse than the worse intel X86\X64 CPU on the market...

And I think they wont be able to play much games either.

Snapdragon only gets a quite nice performance on arm apps and wind10 arm is far away from android offerings in terms of arm app\games offering.
 

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I dont think you will be able to do much with wind10 ARM, as tested with the powerful snapdragon 835 which is far ahead in CPU power compared to the Switch and around as much GPU power as the tegra X1, on Wind10 arm the X86 apps work worse than the worse intel X86\X64 CPU on the market...

And I think they wont be able to play much games either.

Snapdragon only gets a quite nice performance on arm apps and wind10 arm is far away from android offerings in terms of arm app\games offering.

At least it's not Linux, which you can't do much with either. I'd like to see Android as well, but Windows 10 would be more cool.
 
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For me is just pointless... My father for example has a full X64 Wind10 tablet and he barely use it, he uses more the X64 arm Asus with android. I mean you won't do much in a wind10X64 tablet already unless you have a real expensive one that can play most current games (unless Intel HD gpu is enough 4 you).

ARM wind 10 is even way more pointless as you wont have most GPU technologies in it other than like opengl 1.1... DirectX is only for X86 games only(and people tested on snapdragon and most games or benchmarks didnt even work), I think it still doesn't run X64 apps either (which is basically the majority of current apps, 32bits is dying)...

Wind10ARM = all you will have is drawbacks compared to a real X64 based device running the real Wind10 natively as its where all the goods are, DirectX12, support for all current games and apps... But for portable devices I just prefer Android to go on the web or watch youtube, or play music... I wouldnt even want a full wind10 destkop on the size of a phone or small tablet unless they could make it today with at least 6Tflops of GPU power so that I could play BF1 multiplayer while in the coffee :)
 
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