Thread: MeeGo with WinXP.sp??
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Eztran is offline Eztran
2012-11-09 , 18:46
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Originally Posted by An9 View Post
Well if you ever had Symbian phone, they have arm procesor and developers boullt Win95 emulator...i guess that's the same procesor family, is it not...if not posible in meego OS, than i guess similare to nitdroid before the meego os takes the system environment over, sens the N9 is computer capable of and not just a phone...but the question is how to make run windows drivers on n9 device architecture, but nice to hear from you about this tema concern
There are indeed ways of using x86 apps on ARM, but it's seriously not worth the hassle. Debian is an easier port because it supports ARM very well, and has a massive driver pool available.

WinXP has no drivers available for pretty much any of the N9's hardware, and where drivers are around they're usually proprietary and entirely closed-source. NT is nearly impossible to port to ARM anyway, as has been mentioned.

I'm not sure at all what they did with the Symbian/Windows devices, it seems like they had something similar to qemu running. Anyone with more knowledge can correct me on that one... Anyway, each port like that was designed for a specific phone, and no doubt the drivers took a lot of work - it's possible Microsoft provided some source for the purpose.

Therefore, while technically WinXP on, say, the N9, is possible, it'd be an incredibly hard port - and probably not that worth it, either.
 

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