# Release contents

This release includes the following:

- Qualcomm Linux platform packages hosted on GitHub and Qualcomm servers
- Firmware prebuilts hosted on CodeLinaro artifactory servers

**Qualcomm Linux platform deliverables**

**Qualcomm Linux platform metadata layers hosted on GitHub**

| **Metadata layer** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| meta-qcom-distro | This layer provides a reference distribution configuration and images for Qualcomm based platforms, for use with OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project Qualcomm BSP layers.. |
| meta-qcom | This layer provides additional recipes and machine configuration files for Qualcomm platforms. OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project hardware enablement layer for Qualcomm based platforms. |
| meta-audioreach | This layer hosts OpenEmbedded meta layer for AudioReach |

**Open-source Git repositories used by Qualcomm Linux platform hosted on GitHub**

| **Repo** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/camera-driver | This repository contains the source code of camera-kernel driver for the downstream camera-kernel |
| github.com/qualcomm/gst-plugins-imsdk | Qualcomm® IM SDK provides hardware-accelerated GStreamer plugins and reference apps for multimedia development, along with AI SDK integrations like Neural Processing SDK, AI Engine Direct, and Lite Runtime. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/video-driver | This repository contains the source code of Video driver for VPUs. Required to use VPU hardware on Qualcomm Snapdragon targets. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/kernel | Qualcomm Linux kernel |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/qcom-dtb-metadata | qcom-dtb-metadata project provides a specification document and qcom-metadata.dts file for FIT Based DTB packaging and selection as required by Qualcomm Linux. |
| github.com/qualcomm/userspace-resource-manager | Userspace Resource Manager: System Resource Provisioning Framework |
| github.com/qualcomm/abl2esp | abl2esp is a minimal reimplementation of ABL that will search for EFIbootbootaa64.efi across all available file systems and attempt to load and start what it finds. |
| github.com/qualcomm/fastrpc | FastRPC is Qualcomm’s userspace library that facilitates efficient remote procedure calls between the CPU and DSP for high-performance computing. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/kgsl | This repository contains the source code of KGSL driver for the Adreno family of GPUs. Required to use hardware accelerated OpenGL, compute and Vulkan on Qualcomm Snapdragon targets. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/qcom-ptool | qcom-ptool contains various device partitioning utilities like ptool.py, gen\_partitions.py and various sample partition configuration files needed for Qualcomm SoCs. |
| github.com/qualcomm/minkipc | Libraries that implement and clients that utilize the Mink-IPC interface. MINK is a capability-based security framework. |
| github.com/qualcomm/sensinghub | Qualcomm Sensing Hub (QSH) is an always-on, low-power interface designed to collect, process, and combine sensor and contextual data. It offers stable APIs that enable applications and services to interact with the hub efficiently, reducing the need for frequent application processor wakeups. |
| github.com/AudioReach/audioreach-kernel | This repository hosts a set of out-of-tree Linux kernel drivers which provide communication channel between signal processing framework running on audio DSP and audioReach graph service libraries running in userspace. |
| github.com/AudioReach/audioreach-audio-utils | Audioreach-audio-utils includes the necessary utilities and libraries for PAL to configure use cases. It contains the audio-route.h header, which defines various APIs used to update mixer paths based on the provided arguments. |
| github.com/AudioReach/audioreach-pal | Audioreach-PAL (AudioReach Platform Abstraction Layer) is hardware absration layer for audio and offers different APIs for clients like Pulseaudio/Audio-Server to setup and configure audio use cases. |
| github.com/AudioReach/audioreach-pipewire-plugin | This repository hosts pipewire-plugin which provide modules for pipewire to interact with PAL and below layers. |
| github.com/Audioreach/audioreach-engine | This repository hosts implementation of generic signal processing framework, modules which can be used as part of audio graph, and platform & OS abstraction layer for different architecture & SoCs |
| github.com/Audioreach/audioreach-conf | This repository aims to host configuration files read by various AudioReach components for different vendor/business unit (BU)/chipset/board. Examples of different business unit (BU) can be - Qualcomm Linux, XR, Automotive, Linux Android etc. |
| github.com/linux-msm/qbootctl | This HAL was pulled from AOSP source code and bastardised to build and run on a musl/glibc system |
| github.com/linux-msm/hexagonrpc | This repo contains a FastRPC ioctl wrapper and a reverse tunnel.<br>FastRPC is used to communicate with the Context Hub Runtime Environment, a program on the DSP that manages sensors, and to serve files to remote processors. |
| github.com/linux-msm/tqftpserv | The tqftpserv software is an implementation of a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) server which runs on top of the AF\_QIPCRTR (a.k.a QRTR) socket type.<br>The main purpose of tqftpserv is to serve files from the Linux file system to other processors on the Qualcomm SoCs as requested. |
| github.com/linux-msm/rmtfs | Qualcomm Remote Filesystem Service Implementation |
| github.com/quic/qmi-framework | Qualcomm Messaging Interface |
| github.com/linux-msm/pd-mapper | pd-mapper (Protection Domain Mapper) is a user-space daemon used in Qualcomm Linux platforms. It manages the availability and mapping of Protection Domains (PDs) running on remote subsystems (such as the ADSP, CDSP, or MPSS). |
| github.com/quic/time-services | Time-services Daemon to sync time from Modem to APPS and maintain time across reboots (even if the modem is not network camped). |
| github.com/linux-msm/qrtr | Userspace reference for net/qrtr in the Linux kernel |
| github.com/linux-msm/bootrr | This repo contains test which are sanity checker for boards under automated test on LAVA. |
| github.com/andersson/mybw | A simple tool used to measure memory read performance (bandwidth). |
| github.com/linux-msm/diag | DIAG implements routing of diagnostics related messages between host and various subsystems. |
| github.com/qca/ath6kl-firmware | ath6kl-firmware is a repository that hosts the binary firmware images required for the ath6kl Linux kernel Wi-Fi driver. |
| github.com/qca/qca-swiss-army-knife | This repo hosts a set of utilities that we use to debug / help with our driver development. |
| github.com/linux-msm/qmic | QMI IDL (Interface Definition Language) Compiler. It is a tool used to generate C code helpers for encoding and decoding QMI messages from .idl definitions. |
| github.com/msm8916-mainline/qtestsign | qtestsign is a simple tool to “sign” ELF Qualcomm firmware images using a dummy certificate chain (“test keys”) |
| github.com/linux-msm/qdl | This tool communicates with USB devices of id 05C6:9008 to upload a flash loader and use this to flash images. |
| github.com/linux-msm/debugcc | debugcc (Debug Clock Controller) is a Linux kernel driver component used to measure and validate clock frequencies on Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs. |
| github.com/linux-msm/pil-squasher | pil-squasher takes a split firmware image (mdt + bXX files) and squash them into a single mbn firmware image, preserving signature et al. |
| github.com/anestisb/qc\_image\_unpacker | Tool to extract meta & packed Qualcomm images used in Android devices. These type of images are mostly used from bootloader and modem images. |
| github.com/quic/quic-teec | This repo provides an interface for communication to the Qualcomm Trusted Execution Environment (QTEE)  via the QCOM-TEE driver registered with the Linux TEE subsystem |
| github.com/quic/mink-idl-compiler | Mink IDL is used to describe programming interfaces that can be used to communicate across security domain boundaries. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/optee\_os | Qualcomm upstream staging repo for OP-TEE OS |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/trusted-firmware-a | Qualcomm upstream staging repo for Trusted Firmware-A |
| github.com/coreboot/qc\_blobs | Read-only mirror of [https://review.coreboot.org/qc_blobs](https://review.coreboot.org/qc_blobs). |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/u-boot | This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other processors |
| github.com/linux-msm/dsp-binaries | Binaries required for FastRPC to be useful with the Hexagon DSPs present on Qualcomm-based devices. |
| github.com/op-tee/optee\_client | This git contains source code for the non-secure side implementation of the OP-TEE project making up the client library and tee-supplicant. |
| github.com/op-tee/optee\_test | This git contains source code for the test suite (xtest) used to test the OP-TEE project. |
| github.com/qualcomm-linux/gbm-msm-backend | A GBM (Generic Buffer Manager) backend implementation for Qualcomm MSM (Mobile Station Modem) platforms, designed to work as an overlay on top of upstream Mesa GBM. |
| github.com/qualcomm/camera-service | Camera Service : It provides a camera service that loads the CamX libraries to interact with the camera hardware module. Additionally, it offers client APIs for communication with the service. Applications such as GStreamer-based apps can use these client APIs to access the camera feed and build end-user solutions. |
| github.com/qualcomm/sigma-dut | WFA Sigma DUT/CA |
| github.com/qualcomm/userspace-resource-manager-extensions | The Userspace Resource Manager (URM) provides a standard upstream framework for managing system resources through a well-defined set of resources and signals. |
| github.com/quic/cbsp-boot-utilities | This project hosts utilities/apps related to Boot firmware. |
| github.com/tc956x/tc9564\_firmware | TC9564 PCIe-Ethernet Bridge Firmware |
| github.com/tc956x/tc9564\_host\_driver | TC9564 PCIe-Ethernet Bridge Linux Host Driver |

**Qualcomm Linux platform pre-built packages hosted on Qartifactory**

| **Tech area** | **Prebuilt tar.gz name** | **Prebuilt tar.gz feature and function** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| camera | camxcommon-headers\_1.0.6\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | camera proprietary common utility API used by camera driver |
| camera | camxfirmware-kodiak\_1.0.7\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | camera proprietary firmware to support camera functionality on Kodiak |
| camera | camxfirmware-lemans\_1.0.7\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | camera proprietary firmware to support camera functionality on Lemans |
| camera | camxfirmware-talos\_1.0.1\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | camera proprietary firmware to support camera functionality on talos |
| camera | camxlib-kodiak\_1.0.18\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | Camera proprietary libraries, example 3A lib, and ISP libs |
| camera | camxlib-talos\_1.0.8\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | Camera proprietary libraries, example 3A lib, and ISP libs |
| camera | camxlib-lemans\_1.0.18\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | Camera proprietary libraries, example 3A lib, and ISP libs |
| camera | chicdk-kodiak\_1.0.18\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | Camera proprietary hardware interface development kit |
| camera | camx-kodiak\_1.0.18\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | Camera proprietary core engine and business logic |
| video | qcom-video-ctrl\_1.0\_armv8-2a.tar.gz | QCOM library for smart video codec control logic |
| Graphics | qcom-adreno\_1.855.4\_armv8a.tar.gz | Graphics proprietary libraries |
| Core BSP | diag-router\_15.0+really1.0.2\_armv8a.tar.gz | This is Diag binary which is central entity on AP side and supports logging (logs, messages, events), command req/rsp for subsystems such as Modem/ADSP/CDSP. |
| Core BSP | diag\_15.0.qcom+really1.0.3\_armv8a.tar.gz | This is Diag library required by AP side Diag clients for their logging needs. |
| Sensors | qcom-sensors-prebuilts\_1.2.0\_armv8a.tar.gz | QCOM sensor binaries |
| security | qwes\_1.0\_armv8a.tar.gz | Qualcomm Wireless Edge Services binaries, setup scripts and utility application |

**Boot essentials hosted on Qartifactory**

| **SoC** | **Repo** | **Description** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| QCS6490/QCS5430 | QCM6490\_bootbinaries.zip | Includes NHLOS critical binaries for bootup |
| IQ9 | QCS9100\_bootbinaries.zip | Includes NHLOS critical binaries for bootup |
| IQ8 | QCS8300\_bootbinaries.zip | Includes NHLOS critical binaries for bootup |
| IQ6 | QCS615\_bootbinaries.zip | Includes NHLOS critical binaries for bootup |
| IQ-X | HAMOA\_bootbinaries.zip | Includes NHLOS critical binaries for bootup |

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