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..

[obcd]

I am sorry if my reply is seen as shooting his idea down.
I was just trying to explain that the idea of a fully operational workable xp os on the xbox probably isn't possible, to avoid people starting to ask if it will be possible to run the latest directx 10 games on it once it's ready.
It's like the post that the chihiro bios has been dumped, and people wondering if that would make it possible for the xbox to have 512MB of memory and flawlessy HD video playback.

I have even recently tried to recover the sources of the wince port that was made for the xbox. Apparently, the bootloader sources have vanished, so I had to reconstruct them starting from the linux bootloader.

I don't mind sharing this knowledge as long as it looks like it might be usefull to someone. In my opinion, windows CE would be a more logic choice, and would be more doable. It just might not add you to the hall of fame with people having done great achievements for the xbox, as the prove of concept that it can be done has already been made. That doesn't mean that all the possible obstacles that might appear during the development are already solved. There is still a long way to go from the proof of concept to a usefull OS.

As always, I am just spreading my meaning here, and I am fully open for arguments against my thoughts.

regards.