Windows IoT is a version of Windows 10 that’s optimized for smaller devices with or without a display, and was fist released for Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnowBoard MAX. Since then a few more boards are now officially supported, including DragonBoard 410c, and Raspberry Pi 3. But there’s been some recent developments as two Allwinner A64 64-bit ARM boards are now supported according to two wiki entries (here and there) explaining how to run a simple Csharp sample on Windows 10 IoT Core on either Banana Pi M64 or Pine A64 boards.
The guide shows how to configure Azure IoT Hub, register the IoT device, and build and deploy Azure IoT SDK on the board.
But basically if all you want to is to run Windows IoT core on either board, you’ll need to download either:
- Windows 10 IoT Core for Banana Pi M64: Windows10IoT_BPI-M64.ffu (Link removed as Microsoft does not allow redistribution of ffu for now, despite the link being available directly on github without SLA)
- Windows 10 IoT Core for Pine A64/A64+: Windows10IoT_Pine64.ffu (Link removed as Microsoft does not allow redistribution of ffu for now, despite the link being available directly on github without SLA)
Then install and run IoT Dashboard in a Windows computer, select the Setup new device tab, then Customize, and load the FFU firmware file to flash it to an 8GB micro SD card. Once it’s done, insert the micro SD card into the board, and it should run Windows 10 IoT Core at next boot.
Windows 10 IoT Core has also been ported to few other Intel based embedded computers, as well as Toradex Colibri T30 Tegra 3 system-on-module.
[Update: Allwinner has uploaded a video showing Pine A64 with Windows 10 IoT Core (Video removed, as Microsoft does not like that video being published together with the press release. Maybe because it shows they’ve yet to implement Ethernet….)]
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