[PATCH v3 0/6] arm: snapdragon: Add snagboot support for Lemans-EVK

Balaji Selvanathan balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu Jun 18 12:36:05 CEST 2026


Hi Casey,

On 6/17/2026 8:37 PM, Casey Connolly wrote:
>
> On 16/06/2026 18:42, Ferass El Hafidi via groups.io wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:26, "Casey Connolly via groups.io"
>> <casey.connolly=linaro.org at groups.io> wrote:
>>> Hi Balaji,
>>>
>>> On 16/06/2026 11:22, Balaji Selvanathan wrote:
>>>> This series adds support for running U-Boot in snagboot mode on
>>>> Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, targeting the Lemans-EVK board.
>>> You didn't respond to my reply on v2 of this series.
>>>> Snagboot is an open-source, scriptable flashing framework that provides
>>>> an alternative to the proprietary Firehose protocol for device
>>>> provisioning. Like the traditional EDL+Firehose flow, Snagboot uses the
>>>> Qualcomm boot ROM recovery mode (EDL) and Sahara protocol to download
>>>> and execute bootloaders. However, instead of using the proprietary
>>>> Firehose programmer, Snagboot loads U-Boot into DDR and uses the
>>>> standard fastboot protocol for device flashing.
>>> Glad to have some more info here. Please also add a doc page with this
>>> information as well as a list of supported platforms.
>>>
>> I suppose they are talking about this snagboot: https://github.com/
>> bootlin/snagboot
>>
>> But what's confusing me is there is no mention of any Qualcomm board,
>> nor any PR to add support for it. Is that in some downstream tree
>> somewhere? (to be clear I'm just someone interested in understanding
>> this better, snagboot is a very cool project that already supports
>> plenty of SoCs and it's great if it has or will have qcom support)
> ah yep, there's a fork here
> https://github.com/qualcomm-linux/snagboot/tree/qcom-next
>
> Balaji: it would be great if you would include context like this in the
> cover letter.

Yes, the mentioned repo is where we are doing changes to bring Qualcomm 
(for Lemans EVK) support to Snagboot.

Sure, will include these details in the cover letter and also address 
other feedback comments in v4 respin, which I will send shortly.

Regards,

Balaji

>
> Kind regards,
>
>> Best regards,
>> Ferass
>>
>>
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