[PATCH v8] arm64: dts: qcom: kodiak: Add EL2 overlay

From: Mukesh Ojha

Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 02:40:47 EST


All the existing variants Kodiak boards are using Gunyah hypervisor
which means that, so far, Linux-based OS could only boot in EL1 on those
devices. However, it is possible for us to boot Linux at EL2 on these
devices [1].

When running under Gunyah, the remote processor firmware IOMMU
streams are controlled by Gunyah. However, without Gunyah, the IOMMU is
managed by the consumer of this DeviceTree. Therefore, describe the
firmware streams for each remote processor.

Add a EL2-specific DT overlay and apply it to Kodiak IOT variant
devices to create -el2.dtb for each of them alongside "normal" dtb.

Note that modem and media subsystems haven't been supported yet due
to missing dependencies. For GPU to work, zap shader is disabled and
in EL2 mode the kernel owns hardware watchdog which is enabled here.
And for wifi to work wpss copy engine memory need to be mapped for
WPSS firmware to work which is aligning with sc7280 chrome.

[1]
https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/topics/80-70020-4/boot-developer-touchpoints.html#uefi

Co-developed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v8: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260522115936.201208-2-sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Added a wpss copy engine memory similar to chrome for Wifi to work.
- WPSS does not have firmware Stream, so that was removed.
- Added wifi streams similar to chrome for wifi to work.
- Removed this patch from Generic Pas patch series, can be followed
separately.
- Moved Sumit as co-author as part of modification done to the patch
in the past.
- Added some more kodiak's board variants in the makefile.

Changes in v1-v7:
- mpss was disabled and will be enabled once the dependencies patches
get merged.

arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile | 12 ++++++
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak.dtsi | 2 +-
3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile
index 6f33c4e2f09c..d2cee1190954 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile
@@ -164,7 +164,11 @@ purwa-iot-evk-el2-dtbs := purwa-iot-evk.dtb x1-el2.dtbo

dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += purwa-iot-evk-el2.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcm6490-fairphone-fp5.dtb
+
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcm6490-idp.dtb
+qcm6490-idp-el2-dtbs := qcm6490-idp.dtb kodiak-el2.dtbo
+dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcm6490-idp-el2.dtb
+
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcm6490-particle-tachyon.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcm6490-shift-otter.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs404-evb-1000.dtb
@@ -176,12 +180,20 @@ qcs615-ride-el2-dtbs := qcs615-ride.dtb talos-el2.dtbo
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs615-ride-el2.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-radxa-dragon-q6a.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2.dtb
+qcs6490-rb3gen2-el2-dtbs := qcs6490-rb3gen2.dtb kodiak-el2.dtbo
+dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2-el2.dtb

qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine-dtbs := qcs6490-rb3gen2.dtb qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine.dtbo
qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine-dtbs := qcs6490-rb3gen2.dtb qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine.dtbo

dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine.dtb
+qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine-el2-dtbs := qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine.dtb kodiak-el2.dtbo
+dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2-industrial-mezzanine-el2.dtb
+
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine.dtb
+qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine-el2-dtbs := qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine.dtb kodiak-el2.dtbo
+dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-mezzanine-el2.dtb
+
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-thundercomm-minipc-g1iot.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs6490-thundercomm-rubikpi3.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QCOM) += qcs8300-ride.dtb
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..91e4cda45b49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
+ *
+ * Kodiak specific modifications required to boot in EL2.
+ */
+
+/dts-v1/;
+/plugin/;
+
+&gpu_zap_shader {
+ status = "disabled";
+};
+
+&remoteproc_adsp {
+ iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1800 0x0>;
+};
+
+&remoteproc_cdsp {
+ iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x11a0 0x0400>;
+};
+
+&remoteproc_mpss {
+ status = "disabled";
+};
+
+&reserved_memory {
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+
+ wlan_ce_mem: wlan-ce@4cd000 {
+ no-map;
+ reg = <0x0 0x004cd000 0x0 0x1000>;
+ };
+};
+
+&venus {
+ status = "disabled";
+};
+
+&watchdog {
+ status = "okay";
+};
+
+&wifi {
+ memory-region = <&wlan_fw_mem>, <&wlan_ce_mem>;
+ status = "okay";
+
+ wifi-firmware {
+ iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1c02 0x1>;
+ };
+};
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak.dtsi
index fa540d8c2615..2486d15fa2ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak.dtsi
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ sleep_clk: sleep-clk {
};
};

- reserved-memory {
+ reserved_memory: reserved-memory {
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;
ranges;
--
2.53.0