Windows 8 beta installed onto ARM tablet?

Question

I am considering installing Win8 onto an HP Touchpad that I picked up from their firesale. Any tips? Is there a tablet installation? It is the 32GB version if that matters.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Answer 1

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:45:32 +0000, Jon R Cortright wrote:

I am considering installing Win8 onto an HP Touchpad that I picked up from their firesale. Any tips? Is there a tablet installation? It is the 32GB version if that matters.

The Windows 8 Developer Preview that is currently available is only for
Intel/AMD it does not have ARM support.

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Answer 2

Even if Microsoft release an ARM version you still need HP or someone else to write drivers in order to support Windows 8.

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Answer 3

That is what I figured. Thanks.

Answer 4

True dat. I had heard that the Touchpads were originally designed as Win Tabs. So I was hoping that maybe the drivers already existed somewhere.

Answer 5

I think that the CyanogenMod team had created their own drivers for android and are open source, so in time maybe, a windows 8 hacker can recompile them.

Lets have our fingers crossed :)

Answer 6

So... now that WOA is official, the only hurdle is HP drivers?

Anyone have any insight there? Is it possible?

HP recently released the drivers for Android (source: rootzwiki.com somewhere, sorry... being lazy), I wonder if they can be adaptyed or, at worse, reverse engineered?

Answer 7

It is a lot of work, I don't know who have the resource, certainly not HP.

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