diff --git a/dev-embedded/qdl/Manifest b/dev-embedded/qdl/Manifest
index 4697d863b0..22bf43847e 100644
--- a/dev-embedded/qdl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-embedded/qdl/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST qdl-2.4.tar.gz 49938 BLAKE2B 691dc7e6625ea7c19c62aed41a4bb6c63b8371c1f1182b88e5b0173b8cd5e5799e23ef99e4c09f82cd5d4060bc5b48e96a607ee9d6e19104a5d42c4adc797d82 SHA512 e7cf3780a15f43e66addb6f8e0ce7702b5a311980e0d3ce6c30d67bbe53994777189b58ea85843f44665fa6ad5784e723ace893bb07a248b8dc7f88c34bec10c
 DIST qdl-2.5.tar.gz 51204 BLAKE2B c523c01c9a9d5c8902679ec76e88ea7068a4e8c0485bd5ac462fc150cc0b4029439723640eaecf7fdc547faea98760d9e108d8555ef275498291d78eeaaebeef SHA512 b42700225dd93184ae588b64de0479fc46ca51240b1c3c7fb28f27c5d49bddd12c41a8665caf447d66b66d38a7be75cec9e0cdad043240cdd106cc37e2332591
+DIST qdl-2.6.tar.gz 59999 BLAKE2B 5c4069086ba637f7c4c8da98a794e7e2fdc30c229c9e7cb35a8de1cd057a42acaec83477a9003f0a2b1f30f7107f7e99b7e49b10d29d3a353d114b5916e6cc2e SHA512 cc408faf16e531534f2ee3dc84d99f15b988ebae78ee44b45790f6db113bd98356dcb28a2a744be7d9560749b6a27310d3fd8625fad2986b6f4844c7b839a5e3
diff --git a/dev-embedded/qdl/qdl-2.6.ebuild b/dev-embedded/qdl/qdl-2.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a00078f50b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-embedded/qdl/qdl-2.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Copyright 2023-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tool to communicate with Qualcomm System On a Chip bootroms"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/linux-msm/qdl"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/linux-msm/qdl/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libusb:1
+	dev-libs/libxml2:=
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	sys-apps/help2man
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+src_compile() {
+	# $(VERSION) needs to be consistent in all make invocations
+	export VERSION="${PV}"
+
+	local PKG_CONFIG="$(tc-getPKG_CONFIG)"
+	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" \
+		CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} $(${PKG_CONFIG} --cflags libxml-2.0 libusb-1.0 || die)" \
+		LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} $(${PKG_CONFIG} --libs libxml-2.0 libusb-1.0 || die)"
+	emake manpages
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake tests
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" DESTDIR="${D}" install
+	doman *.1
+	einstalldocs
+}