Hear me out: Turning a V5 brain into a computer with Windows

[Rivaan]

I believe this is the original thread

Doom on the V5

Surprised that someone already got the v5 to run doom [DOOM on the Vex V5]

[pruckelshaus]

First: Why? And “because I can” is not a good answer.

Second, you do realize that there’s an ARM build of Windows, right?

[RandomLightingNerd]

Why? Because I get distracted, thats why.

[Tropical]

@Missing-Part

Windows 98 on it, which go ahead I guess?

Windows 98 won’t run on ARM, and modern Windows-on-Arm is only going to run on AArch64 platforms or newer. What I find funny is that this SOC actually has explicit support for Windows CE 7, which Xylon maintains drivers for. Someone with enough boredom, unemployment, and zero regard for if their Brain comes out alive might be able to do this. Sadly, while I am bored and unemployed, I only have two Brains to test on.

@Missing-Part

Maybe Linux though, just maybe. Would be cool if it worked though.

The ZYNQ has very good support for Linux, and I’d imagine that most customers using that SOC are running embedded linux on it in some form. Once again, drivers are a problem, since most of the hardware on the V5 uses custom or proprietary IP.

@RandomLightingNerd

I have not failed 10,000 times, I have simply found 10,000 ways that it will not work.

True!! Only took 10,000 dead brains and $3,750,000 dollars.

@coachdoug80516

Look up that thing labeled Zynq. It isn’t an A9 processor. It is a SoC chip from Xilinx that has a huge FGPA + processor.

No and yes. The Cortex-A9 is a core design licensed by ARM to manufacturers. The ZYNQ is a system-on-a-chip that combines two A9 cores (called the PS/Processing System) and an FPGA (called the PL/Programmable Logic) into a single package. User code is running on one of the A9 cores (CPU1).