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

Balaji Selvanathan balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com
Fri Jun 19 13:16:46 CEST 2026


Hi Ferass,

On 6/16/2026 10:12 PM, Ferass El Hafidi 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)

Please find v4 here: 
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20260619-snagboot-v4-0-385497442db2@oss.qualcomm.com/ 
whose cover letter has more info on Snagboot Qcom.

Regards,

Balaji

>
> Best regards,
> Ferass


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