QDL-KS(1)

📦 version 2.7, in fedora 43

🎀 NAME 🎀

qdl-ks — Qualcomm KS, and yes she's from the User Commands section of the manual, iykyk 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, listen up, because this one is actually so simple once you see it laid out 💖

Here's the whole vibe of how you call her:

qdl-ks -p <sahara dev_node> -s <id:file path> ...

That's it. That's the shape of it. Now let's break down the flags, because the details MATTER and we do not skip details in this house 🫶

  • -h, --help — prints this usage info. Your little "help meeee" button, no cap 🌸
  • -p, --port — the Sahara device node to use. This is the port she's gonna talk to, periodt 💅
  • -s <id:file path>, --sahara <id:file path> — the Sahara protocol file mapping. You're pairing up an id with a file path, one mapping at a time ✨

🌈 the rules (aka the vibe check) 🌈

  • One -p instance is required. Exactly one. Not zero, not three. One 🎀
  • One or more -s instances are required. Bring at least one mapping, or bring the whole squad, your call 🦋
lowkey if you forget either of those, she's not gonna have a good time. Just saying 😭

💫 EXAMPLE 💫

here's what it looks like in the wild, copy-paste energy:

ks -p /dev/mhi0_QAIC_SAHARA -s 1:/opt/qti-aic/firmware/fw1.bin -s 2:/opt/qti-aic/firmware/fw2.bin

see how the -s mappings just keep stacking? two files, two ids, one -p, absolutely ate 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie 👑

this was qdl-ks, version unknown-version (yes that's literally what it says, iconic honestly 💀), dated June 2026, living in the User Commands manual. go forth and map those sahara files fr fr 💜🧚

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