diff --git a/sys-firmware/blisp/Manifest b/sys-firmware/blisp/Manifest
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+++ b/sys-firmware/blisp/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST blisp-0.0.5.tar.gz 169995 BLAKE2B 21863c4b643fc570d154a7e54f35fd34a77f42300cd9297d05972c66a8e55c39d5c494f1d34be258750e7ba17288d992091e9c6967e431732be9226e48f14881 SHA512 92171a7e00df95521b21a3992e395f63d68de0d0f661e23aa7aa8ce4d4ebe7ff12dd2f3bd48f530a7c70895ce786da374cb227c4b9d1e92f625f9a4ea78982e9
diff --git a/sys-firmware/blisp/blisp-0.0.5.ebuild b/sys-firmware/blisp/blisp-0.0.5.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..cc17b51e2d3ed
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bouffalo Labs in-system-programming tool and library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pine64/blisp"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/pine64/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz
+	-> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~riscv"
+IUSE="+tools"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-libs/argtable3
+	dev-libs/libserialport"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	cmake_src_prepare
+
+	# Be extra sure we're not using vendored deps
+	rm -r vendor || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBLISP_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=ON
+		-DBLISP_BUILD_CLI=$(usex tools)
+		-DCOMPILE_TESTS=OFF  # requires unpackaged googletest
+	)
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
diff --git a/sys-firmware/blisp/metadata.xml b/sys-firmware/blisp/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>mjo@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Michael Orlitzky</name>
+  </maintainer>
+
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">pine64/blisp</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+
+  <use>
+    <flag name="tools">
+      Build the blisp command-line utility used to upload firmware to
+      the pinecil
+    </flag>
+  </use>
+</pkgmetadata>