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==Mainline Support==


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It uses the Simple Firmware Interface for discovering system timers and non-enumerable buses, but other stuff can be found using PCI. SFI has been dropped from mainline, so unless that is merged back the best thing is close-to-mainline on a fork of kernel version 5.10 which was the last kernel that supported it or use second stage bootloader [[Petitboot]]  to boot newer kernels with devicetree.(See [[Motorola RAZR i (XT890) (motorola-smi)]]'s device package).|
It uses the Simple Firmware Interface for discovering system timers and non-enumerable buses, but other stuff can be found using PCI. SFI has been dropped from mainline, so unless that is merged back the best thing is close-to-mainline on a fork of kernel version 5.10 which was the last kernel that supported it or use second stage bootloader [[Petitboot]]  to boot newer kernels with devicetree.(See [[Motorola RAZR i (XT890) (motorola-smi)]]'s device package).
Considering that regular UEFI is supported in Linux, porting EDK-II might be an interesting option for getting mainline Linux to boot.}}

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