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You don't have to use images that were built for the specific SoCs they're built on?

For example, on ARM servers I can load this generic ISO[1], and it will work. I can't do that with a Raspberry Pi, however.

Do those phones have UEFI and ACPI support, or SBSA[2] support? If so, can you point me to where I can read more about it? Google is failing me here.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur...



> You don't have to use images that were built for the specific SoCs they're built on?

All necessary patches are upstreamed. Librem5: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-7/. Pinephone: https://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html.

> Do those phones have UEFI and ACPI support, or SBSA[2] support? If so, can you point me to where I can read more about it?

This question is beyond my knowledge, but you can already install >17 operating systems on Pinephone (https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/) and >3 on Librem 5 (PureOS, Mobian, postmarketOS [1]), so it should be there.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/adventures-of-porting-postmarketos-to-...

More info on Librem 5: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...


It doesn’t have UEFI–it uses u-boot instead. To test whether it has ACPI support, someone who has the phone should do this: sudo apt install acpi acpi -V

To determine its level of SBSA would take hours of reading the spec and testing each thing in the spec, and I doubt that very many people care about SBSA.

From https://forums.puri.sm/t/frequently-asked-questions-for-the-....




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