Is Anyone Seriously Trying To Get A Full Windows Kernel Running?, seriously, i'd do it myself if i were legally allowed Options

[torne]

Yes, I have read the stickies, and other long tedious posts filled with criticism.

It would be amusing to see a full Windows boot on the Xbox, and there doesn't seem to be that much to do tbh: poke the kernel/HAL/etc to not touch the bits of the address space and PCI bus that kill the machine, and then write a couple of drivers (graphics, mostly, much of the rest of the hardware should be supported). The latter is pretty easy; the Linux port's drivers are there as a reference for how to program the hardware.

Is anyone seriously looking at fixing the kernel/HAL to avoid the hardware bugs? It's only a couple of megs of code, with full symbolic information available...
I'd do it myself but I have access to, and have spent a lot of time working with, the Windows source (legally under signed NDA) and thus it's extremely dubious for me to reverse-engineer the Windows kernel - I am 'tainted' and would get the project in legal difficulties =(

If the fixes to the existing binaries are done I'd be interested to help write the few required drivers, which would not be subject to such restrictions..

[silentnite2608]

I understand that you can't get xp running on the xbox
What about Windows Fundamentals?
Or I heard tiny Xp?
I think I going to try this.

[torne]

I understand that you can't get xp running on the xbox
What about Windows Fundamentals?
Or I heard tiny Xp?
I think I going to try this.

This is unrelated to the topic being discussed here The reasons you can't run Windows natively on the Xbox are unrelated to how much RAM or other resources are required (the OS simply expects things to exist which don't, like a PC BIOS).

If you want to run Windows under QEMU on Linux, then yes, using one of the cut-down versions of XP is a good plan, but that's nothing to do with this topic.