linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: qcom: qcm6490: Introduce Particle Tachyon

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Message-ID: <2bc767td7gw4bxts4k4xwhdiv5tgxmpyjwwv6nqeatvncdov6c@u7gfilzxgomp>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:22:18 +0300
From: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@....qualcomm.com>
To: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@....qualcomm.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: qcom: qcm6490: Introduce Particle Tachyon

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:19:39PM -0500, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 03:01:35AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 06:05:36PM -0500, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > Introduce the Particle Tachyon board (https://www.particle.io/tachyon/),
> > > a single board compute with 5G connectivity and AI accelerator.
> > > 
> > > The boards currently ships with the Android Boot Loader, but replacing
> > > this with abl2esp allows writing a EFI System Parition and OS partitions
> > > to all of LUN0, and a more UEFI boot experience. A prebuilt version of
> > > abl2esp is provided at [1], as abl2esp-v6.elf.
> > > 
> > > With a (very) recent version of QDL, a flash programmer from a Tachyon
> > > software release, and a full distro image, this can be achieved with:
> > > 
> > >   qdl prog_firehose_ddr.elf write abl_a abl2esp-v6.elf write abl_b abl2esp-v6.elf write 0 image.raw
> > > 
> > > The following firmware files are currently used, on top of what's in
> > > linux-firmware already:
> > >   qcom/qcm6490/particle/tachyon/a660_zap.mbn
> > >   qcom/qcm6490/particle/tachyon/adsp.mbn
> > >   qcom/qcm6490/particle/tachyon/cdsp.mbn
> > >   qcom/qcm6490/particle/tachyon/ipa_fws.mbn
> > >   qcom/qcm6490/particle/tachyon/modem.mbn
> > 
> > Is it locked?
> 
> It doesn't look that way.

Then anything preventing us from using the default, non-signed FW?

> 
> > Would it be possible to Particle-signed firmware into linux-firmware?
> 
> That is something that would have to be discussed...

It would be really nice...

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry