diff --git a/packages/device.py b/packages/device.py
index a800f7e..4dc8ff6 100644
--- a/packages/device.py
+++ b/packages/device.py
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ from typing import Optional
 from config import config
 from constants import Arch, ARCHES
 from config.scheme import DataClass, munchclass
+from distro.distro import get_kupfer_local
+from distro.package import LocalPackage
+from utils import read_files_from_tar
+
+from .build import check_package_version_built
 from .pkgbuild import discover_pkgbuilds, get_pkgbuild_by_path, _pkgbuilds_cache, Pkgbuild
+from .deviceinfo import DeviceInfo, parse_deviceinfo
 
 DEVICE_DEPRECATIONS = {
     "oneplus-enchilada": "sdm845-oneplus-enchilada",
@@ -22,9 +28,34 @@ class Device(DataClass):
     name: str
     arch: Arch
     package: Pkgbuild
+    deviceinfo: Optional[DeviceInfo]
 
-    def parse_deviceinfo(self):
-        pass
+    def parse_deviceinfo(self, try_download: bool = True, lazy: bool = True):
+        if not lazy or 'deviceinfo' not in self or self.deviceinfo is None:
+            is_built = check_package_version_built(self.package, self.arch, try_download=try_download)
+            if not is_built:
+                raise Exception(f"device package {self.package.name} for device {self.name} couldn't be acquired!")
+            pkgs: dict[str, LocalPackage] = get_kupfer_local(arch=self.arch, in_chroot=False, scan=True).get_packages()
+            if self.package.name not in pkgs:
+                raise Exception(f"device package {self.package.name} somehow not in repos, this is a kupferbootstrap bug")
+            pkg = pkgs[self.package.name]
+            file_path = pkg.acquire()
+            assert file_path
+            assert os.path.exists(file_path)
+            deviceinfo_path = 'etc/kupfer/deviceinfo'
+            for path, f in read_files_from_tar(file_path, [deviceinfo_path]):
+                if path != deviceinfo_path:
+                    raise Exception(f'Somehow, we got a wrong file: expected: "{deviceinfo_path}", got: "{path}"')
+                with f as fd:
+                    lines = fd.readlines()
+                    assert lines
+                    if lines and isinstance(lines[0], bytes):
+                        lines = [line.decode() for line in lines]
+            info = parse_deviceinfo(lines, self.name)
+            assert info.arch
+            assert info.arch == self.arch
+            self['deviceinfo'] = info
+        return self.deviceinfo
 
 
 def check_devicepkg_name(name: str, log_level: Optional[int] = None):
diff --git a/packages/deviceinfo.py b/packages/deviceinfo.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e7c3c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/deviceinfo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+# Copyright 2022 Oliver Smith
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Taken from postmarketOS/pmbootstrap, modified for kupferbootstrap by Prawn
+import copy
+import logging
+import os
+
+from typing import Mapping
+
+from config import config
+from constants import Arch
+from dataclass import DataClass
+
+PMOS_ARCHES_OVERRIDES: dict[str, Arch] = {
+    "armv7": 'armv7h',
+}
+
+
+class DeviceInfo(DataClass):
+    arch: Arch
+    name: str
+    manufacturer: str
+    codename: str
+    chassis: str
+    flash_pagesize: int
+    flash_method: str
+
+    @classmethod
+    def transform(cls, values: Mapping[str, str], validate: bool = True, allow_extra: bool = True):
+        return super().transform(values, validate=validate, allow_extra=allow_extra)
+
+
+# Variables from deviceinfo. Reference: <https://postmarketos.org/deviceinfo>
+deviceinfo_attributes = [
+    # general
+    "format_version",
+    "name",
+    "manufacturer",
+    "codename",
+    "year",
+    "dtb",
+    "modules_initfs",
+    "arch",
+
+    # device
+    "chassis",
+    "keyboard",
+    "external_storage",
+    "screen_width",
+    "screen_height",
+    "dev_touchscreen",
+    "dev_touchscreen_calibration",
+    "append_dtb",
+
+    # bootloader
+    "flash_method",
+    "boot_filesystem",
+
+    # flash
+    "flash_heimdall_partition_kernel",
+    "flash_heimdall_partition_initfs",
+    "flash_heimdall_partition_system",
+    "flash_heimdall_partition_vbmeta",
+    "flash_heimdall_partition_dtbo",
+    "flash_fastboot_partition_kernel",
+    "flash_fastboot_partition_system",
+    "flash_fastboot_partition_vbmeta",
+    "flash_fastboot_partition_dtbo",
+    "generate_legacy_uboot_initfs",
+    "kernel_cmdline",
+    "generate_bootimg",
+    "bootimg_qcdt",
+    "bootimg_mtk_mkimage",
+    "bootimg_dtb_second",
+    "flash_offset_base",
+    "flash_offset_kernel",
+    "flash_offset_ramdisk",
+    "flash_offset_second",
+    "flash_offset_tags",
+    "flash_pagesize",
+    "flash_fastboot_max_size",
+    "flash_sparse",
+    "flash_sparse_samsung_format",
+    "rootfs_image_sector_size",
+    "sd_embed_firmware",
+    "sd_embed_firmware_step_size",
+    "partition_blacklist",
+    "boot_part_start",
+    "partition_type",
+    "root_filesystem",
+    "flash_kernel_on_update",
+    "cgpt_kpart",
+    "cgpt_kpart_start",
+    "cgpt_kpart_size",
+
+    # weston
+    "weston_pixman_type",
+
+    # keymaps
+    "keymaps",
+]
+
+# Valid types for the 'chassis' atribute in deviceinfo
+# See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-info.html
+deviceinfo_chassis_types = [
+    "desktop",
+    "laptop",
+    "convertible",
+    "server",
+    "tablet",
+    "handset",
+    "watch",
+    "embedded",
+    "vm",
+]
+
+
+def sanity_check(deviceinfo: dict[str, str], device_name: str):
+    try:
+        _pmos_sanity_check(deviceinfo, device_name)
+    except RuntimeError as err:
+        raise Exception(f"{device_name}: The postmarketOS checker for deviceinfo files has run into an issue.\n"
+                        "Here at kupfer, we usually don't maintain our own deviceinfo files "
+                        "and instead often download them postmarketOS in our PKGBUILDs.\n"
+                        "Please make sure your PKGBUILDs.git is up to date. (run `kupferbootstrap packages update`)\n"
+                        "If the problem persists, please open an issue for this device's deviceinfo file "
+                        "in the kupfer pkgbuilds git repo on Gitlab.\n\n"
+                        "postmarketOS error message (referenced file may not exist until you run makepkg in that directory):\n"
+                        f"{err}")
+
+
+def _pmos_sanity_check(info: dict[str, str], device_name: str):
+    # Resolve path for more readable error messages
+    path = os.path.join(config.get_path('pkgbuilds'), 'device', device_name, 'deviceinfo')
+
+    # Legacy errors
+    if "flash_methods" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("deviceinfo_flash_methods has been renamed to"
+                           " deviceinfo_flash_method. Please adjust your"
+                           " deviceinfo file: " + path)
+    if "external_disk" in info or "external_disk_install" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("Instead of deviceinfo_external_disk and"
+                           " deviceinfo_external_disk_install, please use the"
+                           " new variable deviceinfo_external_storage in your"
+                           " deviceinfo file: " + path)
+    if "msm_refresher" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("It is enough to specify 'msm-fb-refresher' in the"
+                           " depends of your device's package now. Please"
+                           " delete the deviceinfo_msm_refresher line in: " + path)
+    if "flash_fastboot_vendor_id" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("Fastboot doesn't allow specifying the vendor ID"
+                           " anymore (#1830). Try removing the"
+                           " 'deviceinfo_flash_fastboot_vendor_id' line in: " + path + " (if you are sure that "
+                           " you need this, then we can probably bring it back to fastboot, just"
+                           " let us know in the postmarketOS issues!)")
+    if "nonfree" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("deviceinfo_nonfree is unused. "
+                           "Please delete it in: " + path)
+    if "dev_keyboard" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("deviceinfo_dev_keyboard is unused. "
+                           "Please delete it in: " + path)
+    if "date" in info:
+        raise RuntimeError("deviceinfo_date was replaced by deviceinfo_year. "
+                           "Set it to the release year in: " + path)
+
+    # "codename" is required
+    codename = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(path))
+    if codename.startswith("device-"):
+        codename = codename[7:]
+    # kupfer prepends the SoC
+    codename_alternative = codename.split('-', maxsplit=1)[1] if codename.count('-') > 1 else codename
+    if "codename" not in info or (codename != info["codename"] and codename_alternative != info["codename"]):
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Please add 'deviceinfo_codename=\"{codename}\"' "
+                           f"to: {path}")
+
+    # "chassis" is required
+    chassis_types = deviceinfo_chassis_types
+    if "chassis" not in info or not info["chassis"]:
+        logging.info("NOTE: the most commonly used chassis types in"
+                     " postmarketOS are 'handset' (for phones) and 'tablet'.")
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Please add 'deviceinfo_chassis' to: {path}")
+
+    # "arch" is required
+    if "arch" not in info or not info["arch"]:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Please add 'deviceinfo_arch' to: {path}")
+
+    # "chassis" validation
+    chassis_type = info["chassis"]
+    if chassis_type not in chassis_types:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown chassis type '{chassis_type}', should"
+                           f" be one of {', '.join(chassis_types)}. Fix this"
+                           f" and try again: {path}")
+
+
+def parse_kernel_suffix(deviceinfo: dict[str, str], kernel: str = 'mainline') -> dict[str, str]:
+    """
+    Remove the kernel suffix (as selected in 'pmbootstrap init') from
+    deviceinfo variables. Related:
+    https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Device_specific_package#Multiple_kernels
+
+    :param info: deviceinfo dict, e.g.:
+                 {"a": "first",
+                  "b_mainline": "second",
+                  "b_downstream": "third"}
+    :param device: which device info belongs to
+    :param kernel: which kernel suffix to remove (e.g. "mainline")
+    :returns: info, but with the configured kernel suffix removed, e.g:
+              {"a": "first",
+               "b": "second",
+               "b_downstream": "third"}
+    """
+    # Do nothing if the configured kernel isn't available in the kernel (e.g.
+    # after switching from device with multiple kernels to device with only one
+    # kernel)
+    # kernels = pmb.parse._apkbuild.kernels(args, device)
+    if not kernel:  # or kernel not in kernels:
+        logging.debug(f"parse_kernel_suffix: {kernel} not set, skipping")
+        return deviceinfo
+
+    ret = copy.copy(deviceinfo)
+
+    suffix_kernel = kernel.replace("-", "_")
+    for key in deviceinfo_attributes:
+        key_kernel = f"{key}_{suffix_kernel}"
+        if key_kernel not in ret:
+            continue
+
+        # Move ret[key_kernel] to ret[key]
+        logging.debug(f"parse_kernel_suffix: {key_kernel} => {key}")
+        ret[key] = ret[key_kernel]
+        del (ret[key_kernel])
+
+    return ret
+
+
+def parse_deviceinfo(deviceinfo_lines: list[str], device_name: str, kernel='mainline') -> DeviceInfo:
+    """
+    :param device: defaults to args.device
+    :param kernel: defaults to args.kernel
+    """
+    info = {}
+    for line in deviceinfo_lines:
+        line = line.strip()
+        if line.startswith("#") or not line:
+            continue
+        if "=" not in line:
+            raise SyntaxError(f"{device_name}: No '=' found:\n\t{line}")
+        split = line.split("=", 1)
+        if not split[0].startswith("deviceinfo_"):
+            logging.warning(f"{device_name}: Unknown key {split[0]} in deviceinfo:\n{line}")
+            continue
+        key = split[0][len("deviceinfo_"):]
+        value = split[1].replace("\"", "").replace("\n", "")
+        info[key] = value
+
+    # Assign empty string as default
+    for key in deviceinfo_attributes:
+        if key not in info:
+            info[key] = ""
+
+    info = parse_kernel_suffix(info, kernel)
+    sanity_check(info, device_name)
+    if 'arch' in info:
+        arch = info['arch']
+        info['arch'] = PMOS_ARCHES_OVERRIDES.get(arch, arch)
+    dev = DeviceInfo.fromDict(info)
+    return dev
diff --git a/packages/test_deviceinfo.py b/packages/test_deviceinfo.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fc7697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/test_deviceinfo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+from config import config
+
+from .device import get_device
+from .deviceinfo import DeviceInfo, parse_deviceinfo
+
+deviceinfo_text = """
+# Reference: <https://postmarketos.org/deviceinfo>
+# Please use double quotes only. You can source this file in shell scripts.
+
+deviceinfo_format_version="0"
+deviceinfo_name="BQ Aquaris X5"
+deviceinfo_manufacturer="BQ"
+deviceinfo_codename="bq-paella"
+deviceinfo_year="2015"
+deviceinfo_dtb="qcom/msm8916-longcheer-l8910"
+deviceinfo_append_dtb="true"
+deviceinfo_modules_initfs="smb1360 panel-longcheer-yushun-nt35520 panel-longcheer-truly-otm1288a msm himax-hx852x"
+deviceinfo_arch="aarch64"
+
+# Device related
+deviceinfo_gpu_accelerated="true"
+deviceinfo_chassis="handset"
+deviceinfo_keyboard="false"
+deviceinfo_external_storage="true"
+deviceinfo_screen_width="720"
+deviceinfo_screen_height="1280"
+deviceinfo_getty="ttyMSM0;115200"
+
+# Bootloader related
+deviceinfo_flash_method="fastboot"
+deviceinfo_kernel_cmdline="earlycon console=ttyMSM0,115200 PMOS_NO_OUTPUT_REDIRECT"
+deviceinfo_generate_bootimg="true"
+deviceinfo_flash_offset_base="0x80000000"
+deviceinfo_flash_offset_kernel="0x00080000"
+deviceinfo_flash_offset_ramdisk="0x02000000"
+deviceinfo_flash_offset_second="0x00f00000"
+deviceinfo_flash_offset_tags="0x01e00000"
+deviceinfo_flash_pagesize="2048"
+deviceinfo_flash_sparse="true"
+"""
+
+
+def test_parse_deviceinfo():
+    config.try_load_file()
+    d = parse_deviceinfo(deviceinfo_text.split('\n'), 'device-bq-paella')
+    assert isinstance(d, DeviceInfo)
+    assert d
+    assert d.arch
+    assert d.chassis
+    assert d.flash_method
+    assert d.flash_pagesize
+    # test that fields not listed in the class definition make it into the object
+    assert d.dtb
+    assert d.gpu_accelerated
+
+
+def test_get_deviceinfo_from_repo():
+    config.try_load_file()
+    dev = get_device('sdm845-oneplus-enchilada')
+    assert dev
+    info = dev.parse_deviceinfo()
+    assert info