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Re:Windows NT for GameCube/Wii by RobotToaster on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:43PM (#43257796)
Wait, does that mean there's a risc-v version of windows?
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Re:Windows NT for GameCube/Wii by p_ing on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:50PM (#43257874)
If there is, it isn't public. .NET does apparently have RISC-V architecture support in some sense due to a pull request by a Samsung engineer.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/82382

From a technical standpoint, there's no reason Windows couldn't be brought to RISC-V in some form or fashion. It's designed for that portability.

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Re:Windows NT for GameCube/Wii by cokernel_hacker on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:39PM (#43261640)
It was almost certainly added in order to support EFI which uses PE/COFF format binaries.
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