Windows 11 24H2 on arm will refuse Cortex A72 ?

Hi there,

I don't remeber where i have read that but it seams that :

The next step evolution of windows on ARM will close the door at all the devboard
based on cortex A72, with requiering an hardware Arm V8.1 processor.

Is that true ?

Regards,

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Ronan Synnott 5 months ago +2

Hi Jerome, I think you would find this session from last week's MS Build event very informative! https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/9d806202-be61-4b5d-ba0d-59ecfcaf0482 Ronan
Jerome Decamps - 杜尚杰 5 months ago in reply to Ronan Synnott +1

Hi Ronan, indeed it was interesting, thank's a lot for this sharing. "A strange feeling in my mind" I have the feeling of the discovery of arm processor by Jensen, but with people of Microsoft (laught...
Jerome Decamps - 杜尚杰 4 months ago +1

That's a little bit strange thinking Cortex A55, may be always usable than the cortex A72 will not be in this ?! Isn't it ?

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+1 jlinton 1 month ago

The direct answer is that windows 11 requires LSE which is a Arm v8.1 feature not available on Cortex-A72. See:

Windows 11 Minimum HW requirements.

See section 3.5: "Supports PF_ARM_V81_ATOMIC_INSTRUCTIONS_AVAILABLE instruction set (for ARM64 processor)"
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+1 jlinton 1 month ago

The direct answer is that windows 11 requires LSE which is a Arm v8.1 feature not available on Cortex-A72. See:

Windows 11 Minimum HW requirements.

See section 3.5: "Supports PF_ARM_V81_ATOMIC_INSTRUCTIONS_AVAILABLE instruction set (for ARM64 processor)"
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0 Jerome Decamps - 杜尚杰 10 days ago in reply to jlinton

That's what i a read also... :(
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