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

Balaji Selvanathan balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com
Fri Jun 19 13:15:46 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.

Please find v4 here: 
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20260619-snagboot-v4-0-385497442db2@oss.qualcomm.com/

Regards,

Balaji

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