# Features enabled

QLI 2.0 rc3 release is an Early Access release for customers to evaluate and onboard on QLI 2.0. This release maintains feature parity to Qualcomm QLI 1.8 release.

Upcoming releases planned towards GA and their milestones include

| **Release name** | **Release scope** | **Release date** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| RC1 | Early Access 1 | February 2026 |
| RC2 | Early Access 2 | March 2026 |
| RC3 | Feature Complete | May 2026 |
| QLI 2.0 | General Availability | June 2026 |

**Features enabled in RC3**

- Added support of QMI(Qualcomm MSM Interface) Thermal control device
- Added support of Thermal Daemon (user space thermal management service)
- Added support of BCL(Battery Current Limiting) feature
- Enabled support of PKCS#11 (Public-Key Cryptography Standard #11)
- Enabled support of QWES (Qualcomm Wireless Edge Services) for device attestation and provisioning.
- Added Support of Inline Crypto Engine (ICE) for eMMC storage
- Enabled support of Low power mode in PCIe driver
- Enabled support of SPI to CAN(MCP2517FD )
- Enable support for HW RAID for QCS6490, IQ8 and IQ9 EVK
- Support for external 4G/5G modem on QCS6490, IQ8 and IQ9 EVK
- Enabled 4K VP9 decoder 240fps support + AV1 decoder support for QCS6490, IQ8 and IQ9

**QCS6490/QCS5430:**

- Enable support for Audio over HDMI (using LT9611UXC Bridge Chip)
- Enable support for Audio over DP (type C)

**IQ9:**

- Enabled dual DPU support for native 4xDP
- DPDK support for Intel NIC on IQ9
- Native Ethernet enabled on IQ9 EVK with Interface plus mezzanine
- Support of 4Lane Mipi-CSI split into 1L + 2L
- MIPI CSI physical lane split for low resolution multi-camera connection
- Enable support for Audio over HDMI (using LT9611UXC Bridge Chip)
- Enable support for Audio over DP (type C)

**IQ8:**

- Enable GMSL MIPI-CSI D-PHY support
- Support for software simulation of QCS8275-AC SoC configuration on IQ8 EVK with QCS8275-AA SoC - Contact Qualcomm for support.
- DPDK support for Intel NIC on IQ8

**IQ6:**

- Enable support for independent updates for NHLOS and HLOS
- SNPE, QNN, TF-lite and QNN-delegate enabled
- Enable RDI based camera solution
- Support for IMX577 camera sensor
- TZ PIL Authentication and Reset handling
- Added support for dynamically update/change SMMU memory access regions (apertures) at runtime

**IQ-X:**

- Early access release supporting IQ-X7181 EVK kit is available. Refer to [Bring up guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80022-297/80-80022-297_REV_AB_Qualcomm_IQ-X_Series_Evaluation_Kit-__Linux_Bringup_guide.pdf) and feature list (comprehensive list of features section) are available

Last Published: Jun 08, 2026

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