Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS?

This article discusses the reasons behind the lack of Windows hot-patching support for certain architectures such as 32-bit ARM and MIPS. It explains the historical context and the specific features of Windows Server that influenced this decision.

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Windows hot-patching supports x86-32 , x86-64 , 64-bit ARM , and Itanium , but why not the other architctures like 32-bit ARM, MIPS, Alpha AXP, PowerPC, and SH-3?

These architectures fall into two buckets.

MIPS, Alpha AXP, PowerPC, and SH-3 all predate hot-patching, so they naturally couldn’t conform to rules that didn’t exist yet.

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