Re: Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated

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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 PM Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> menuconfig SFI
>          bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support"
>          ---help---
>          The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method
>          for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system
>          via static tables in memory.  Kernel SFI support is required to
>          boot on SFI-only platforms.  Currently, all SFI-only platforms are
>          based on the 2nd generation Intel Atom processor platform,
>          code-named Moorestown.
>
>          For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org
>
>          Say 'Y' here to enable the kernel to boot on SFI-only platforms.
>
> I have no idea how common this is but Fedora does enable this option.
> If you are interested in salvaging this, please speak up!

Grepping config and the kernel it seems Moorestown is the Intel MID
platform and we explicitly disable X86_INTEL_MID so I'm not sure it's
a problem.

P
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