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		aseipp 85 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 E... The original Oryon systems allowed you to boot directly into EL2 and skip Gunyah via BIOS settings. I assume this will be the same.

floatboth 85 days ago [–]

Which ones, where? On X1 laptops that shipped with Windows, you can only escape into EL2 via Secure Launch: https://github.com/TravMurav/slbounce

my123 85 days ago | [–]

Didn't ship externally/OEMs didn't take it, but the CRDs had the option.

The prototype impl at the time broke some Windows functionality

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