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All the existing variants Talos 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 Talos IOT variant devices to create -el2.dtb for each of them alongside "normal" dtb.

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

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260127-talos-el2-overlay-v2-3-b6a2266532c4@oss.qualcomm.com/

All the existing variants Talos 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 Talos IOT variant
devices to create -el2.dtb for each of them alongside "normal" dtb.

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

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Liu <xin.liu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260127-talos-el2-overlay-v2-3-b6a2266532c4@oss.qualcomm.com/
@qcomlnxci qcomlnxci requested a review from a team January 28, 2026 04:31
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