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It could be possible if they could figure out a way to use the Windows for pi version.
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yes this is why i mentioned that. I also posted the method of how to compile driver for arm. So from here pretty sure something similar to how android or linux is installed would be needed for the arm win 10 image. Maybe op is confused yes. But he is also bold. Video i posted is proof of concept but I don’t think at the time there was a microsoft method posted for porting drivers. To my knowledge what we need to port in terms of drivers are publicly available no? If anything can we even just try forcing shield versions? In terms of what I would want to run there and would be numerous things. Depending on how it eventually progresses heck i can totally see myself dedicating an sd card to win10 just like j do with android now.
 
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To my knowledge what we need to port in terms of drivers are publicly available no?
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Well there should be enough information about to write windows drivers for everything we have linux drivers for.

Quite whether anyone will bother to do it is another matter.
 
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Out-of-the-(virtual)-box thought here. Is any virtualization software such as VM-ware player or Virtual Box available for ARM Linux? If so would it be possible to boot Win10 ARM virtualized under Linux ARM on Switch?
 
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update 2 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/install-windows-10-on-raspberry-pi,5993.html this might be the methoid as well as tega smash to boot

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ill going to get this to work and on top of it ill be able to play steam on the go
 
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Dude, it wont work. Needs drivers for the Switch. You are attempting to install the RaspberryPi version of Windows 10 ARM on a device it is not compatible with.
 
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You are going to run into issues with UEFI and Device Trees, unless you have evidence you are working on this and not just trying to install the RPi version of WoA and crossing your fingers.

EDIT: Your "updates" are just you deploying the RPi version of WoA to a SDCard, not really updates at all to be honest. Show us proof you are working on UEFI booting, your Device Tree setup, and drivers. Then start posting updates.

And please stop double posting.
 
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No. Most of the drivers just don't exist. The most important one for the GPU for example. Even better there is no nouveau for Windows so you have to write everything from scratch. No one is gonna do that when Linux and Android already work fine.
 
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Well there should be enough information about to write windows drivers for everything we have linux drivers for.

Quite whether anyone will bother to do it is another matter.
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I agree. It will take someone motivated. My time is limited due to work. I was surprised to find a process to do it. My one small contribution. If someone who is knowledgeable and bored can run with it. But I am just brainstorming. I reason we have drivers to a point that we should be able to port.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasone...nstalled-windows-10-on-a-nintendo-switch/amp/

Old but shows it can be done
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exactly like i have been keeping up on this personally and while i imagine you would be crippled perhaps the windows default driver might get some graphics showing even though it is not meant for tegra. Like i said i know someone had been attempting. Will op get further? The thing that interests me is time has passed so the build has changed. All in all i hear what people are saying the driver rewrites sound like a monumental task. I know it is above my paygrade hahahaha
 
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So besides the obvious waste of effort actually trying to install any existing version of Windows is...everyone is just ignoring this part? lol
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ill going to get this to work and on top of it ill be able to play steam on the go
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Even if you get Windows 10 to boot on ARM, it can't play Steam games. Some versions Win 10 for ARM can do x86-64 emulation (notably, on Snapdragon processors) but there is no such compatibility layer for Tegra processors, and even if there was the games would run like crap because you're trying to play architecture-emulated Steam games with no drivers on a Nintendo Switch.
 
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OkazakiTheOtaku said:
Some versions Win 10 for ARM can do x86-64 emulation (notably, on Snapdragon processors) but there is no such compatibility layer for Tegra processors
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x86-64 emulation is coming in the first half of 2021.

I can't find anything that says a particular cpu can run windows 10 on arm, but not run the x86 emulator. But of course it might be slow.

Not that it matters to me, I'd still like to see it happen.
 

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