Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS On ARM/Raspberry Pi

[J. C. Jones]

This is certainly feasible, but is seriously skirting the issue. And when
you achieve it, it is like a toy. No "average" user will ever use ReactOS in
this way on a regular basis. And even "non-average" users will try it,
experiment with it, and say, "Hmm..That's nice!" Then they will push it
aside, and use their non-emulated system, or an emulator combination at is
actually stable.

Also, there might be a technique to translate an .EXE binary from x86_32 to
ARM using a re-compiler. I would rather invest in such a tool than to spend
time trying to emulate. There are low-level things that people might like to
do with a native port of ReactOS on ARM, that simply would not be possible
with emulation. And an OEM is more willing to give money to ReactOS for a
true, native ARM port than emulation.

-John
-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
Behalf Of Bernd Blaauw
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:50 PM
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS On ARM/Raspberry Pi

Op 11-1-2013 11:36, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo schreef:
> /__/
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:41 AM, J. C. Jones <[e-mail] 
> mailto:[e-mail]> wrote:
> "/_Why not port ReactOS to ARM?"_/

As was in the news today, start with an already ARM-enabled operating system
(Linux, I'd suppose) and run ReactOS under it in a VM.
[ https://twitter.com/_peterdn/status/288746654482456576/photo/1 ]

The trick is in getting this as lightweight as possible. Minimal Linux
distro including virtualisation/emulation software + (installed) ReactOS.
Bochs (plus config file, bios and vga-bios) is under 1MB if using an
executable compressor like UPX.

I imagine the various hardware-passthrough options from some virtualisation
programs (QEMU/KVM) allows ReactOS to become more compatible with a system.
Once that's achieved, a native version of ReactOS would be quite nice :)

Bernd

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