After 8 months of development, contributor Ahmed Arif (@sidihmeed) successfully booted the first ARM64 port of ReactOS, marking this open-source Windows-compatible OS’s official entry into the ARM architecture realm.
Technical Requirements
- UEFI-compatible ARM64 hardware is required
- A GICv2 or GICv3 interrupt controller must be enabled
- Support for ARMv8-A and later architectures is necessary
- Raspberry Pi 5 (RPI5) is supported as a special exception, since it uses a separate interrupt chip
Currently, this port remains in the experimental phase. The build code has been made public, and the developer will provide detailed compilation instructions later on.