[PATCH v6 0/8] arm: snapdragon: Add snagboot support for Lemans-EVK
Balaji Selvanathan via U-Boot <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:28:45 +0530
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This series adds support for running U-Boot in snagboot mode on Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, targeting the Lemans-EVK board. 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 EDL mode 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. The framework consists of three modular components: snagrecover (downloads XBL/QCLib to initialize DDR and load U-Boot into RAM), snagflash (communicates with U-Boot over USB using fastboot to flash system images), and snagfactory (orchestrates parallel factory flashing tasks). In the snagboot execution flow, ROM code in EDL mode loads snagrecover, which downloads XBL to internal memory. XBL executes and initializes DDR, then snagrecover downloads U-Boot into DDR and transfers control to it. At this point, XBL has left the MMU enabled with its own page tables and has not initialized PSCI firmware or populated the Command DB. U-Boot must handle this non-standard boot environment to enter fastboot mode for device flashing. Support for Qualcomm Lemans-EVK SOC in Snagboot is now available in https://github.com/qualcomm-linux/snagboot/tree/qcom-next Soon these Snagboot changes will be upstreamed to https://github.com/bootlin/snagboot When U-Boot executes in Snagboot flow, it has to deal with missing platform services such as TrustZone (TZ), Hypervisor and AOP (which populates CMD DB data). This series depends on the following patch/series, which are already picked up in qcom-next https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Balaji Selvanathan <[email protected]> --- Changes in v6: - Forget to send summary in v5 cover letter, no other changes in v6 - Link to v5: https://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=178577208345353&w=2 Changes in v5: - Make QCOM_BOOT0_SNAGBOOT_MODE as hidden config dependent on QCOM_SNAGBOOT_MODE - Disable C (Dcache) bit of SCTLR_EL3 register during MMU disable - Remove now unused QCOM_COMMAND_DB_OPTIONAL Kconfig definition - Disable unnecessar I2C configs (for Snagboot) in Qcom Snagboot config fragment - Add build steps for compiling U-Boot for Snagboot mode in Qcom Snagboot doc - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Changes in v4: - Renamed QCOM_SNAGBOOT_SUPPORT to QCOM_SNAGBOOT_MODE - Make SYSRESET_PSCI dependent on QCOM_SNAGBOOT_MODE - Place Snagboot related configs in seperate config fragment called configs/qcom-snagboot.config - Include above config fragment in configs/qcom_lemans_snagboot_defconfig - Removed Lemans EVK override dtsi: arch/arm/dts/lemans-evk-u-boot.dtsi - Removed QCOM_COMMAND_DB_OPTIONAL as now we use CONFIG_QCOM_SNAGBOOT_MODE - Added documentation on U-Boot for Snagboot - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Changes in v3: - Brought the MMU disable logic under CONFIG_QCOM_SNAGBOOT_SUPPORT ifdef condition - Moved the MMU disable codes to a new seperate file - Used "if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_QCOM_COMMAND_DB_OPTIONAL))" instead of #ifdef - Removed enabling QCOM_COMMAND_DB_OPTIONAL, ENABLE_ARM_SOC_BOOT0_HOOK and SKIP_RELOCATE as they are now automatically enabled by QCOM_SNAGBOOT_SUPPORT selection - Removed updating MAINTAINERS as the defconfig file is picked up by the "N: qcom" line - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Changes in v2: - Changed SYSRESET_PSCI from 'select' to 'imply' - Guard show_psci_version() and qcom_psci_fixup() with CONFIG_ARM_SMCCC - Disables the MMU and invalidates TLBs at the earliest entry point - Add qcom_lemans_snagboot_defconfig for Lemans-EVK - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ --- Balaji Selvanathan (8): arm: snapdragon: Make SYSRESET_PSCI optional arm: snapdragon: Guard PSCI functions with CONFIG_ARM_SMCCC arm: snapdragon: Disable MMU early before U-Boot reset vector arm: snapdragon: Add CONFIG_QCOM_SNAGBOOT_MODE option soc: qcom: cmd-db: Allow boot without CMD DB data arch: arm: dts: remove Lemans EVK override DTS configs: add qcom_lemans_snagboot_defconfig for Lemans-EVK doc: qualcomm: Add snagboot mode documentation arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/lemans-evk-u-boot.dtsi | 19 -- arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/Kconfig | 20 ++ arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c | 6 + arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/include/mach/boot0.h | 2 + .../mach-snapdragon/include/mach/snagboot_boot0.h | 27 +++ configs/qcom-snagboot.config | 46 +++++ configs/qcom_lemans_snagboot_defconfig | 18 ++ doc/board/qualcomm/index.rst | 1 + doc/board/qualcomm/snagboot.rst | 224 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c | 15 +- 11 files changed, 358 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- base-commit: f79edc9ad08ec0c3e40323ff17cc7166ad2b9e71 change-id: 20260731-snagboot-4e9f66f0252d Best regards, -- Balaji Selvanathan <[email protected]>