diff --git a/sys-boot/limine/Manifest b/sys-boot/limine/Manifest
index 2e3270792dc9a..1a1c67c3e3378 100644
--- a/sys-boot/limine/Manifest
+++ b/sys-boot/limine/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST limine-12.6.1.tar.gz 724863 BLAKE2B 4743aa2fd7ebc1914f1101e00a5b0aa2df75446e741489d85e4b17b1fe8921f62929461d01ada4eff6d8fa9c47adeb2a772f45daaaf389995af8626093d7987e SHA512 23a888f5db7b835ae1fd9bcc7fbe02f73298cac2bcd76414f3adf48958be842620366c536421585d07e615ba77d0a1e48c2c62cb6abeea954a41df67edc27663
+DIST limine-12.9.0.tar.gz 733599 BLAKE2B 82bd8848dcfbf2982014d655a109810e8df2cc6a50d29dad97da9aa4d85b3609ec7d97481092fa214f306efc54fe4897dcd3fee5422f32c52bc9cc19b5cc346a SHA512 98e77c9c3788a9b0ef267a051eae714f1668752b76328dc6c6516a7edfd297b742351f4623fa7c194a42e5fa5df1adcd942bc1bd035534c901817df2e7d23ecc
diff --git a/sys-boot/limine/limine-12.9.0.ebuild b/sys-boot/limine/limine-12.9.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e5a5e9f35a54d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-boot/limine/limine-12.9.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+LLVM_COMPAT=( {19..22} )
+inherit llvm-r2
+
+DESCRIPTION="Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager"
+HOMEPAGE="https://limine-bootloader.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Limine-Bootloader/Limine/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="+bios +bios-pxe +bios-cd +uefi-cd +uefi-ia32 +uefi-x86-64 +uefi-aarch64 +uefi-riscv64 +uefi-loongarch64"
+
+MY_LLVM_TARGETS="AArch64 ARM X86 RISCV LoongArch"
+MY_LLVM_FLAGS="llvm_targets_${MY_LLVM_TARGETS// /(-),llvm_targets_}(-)"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	app-alternatives/gzip
+	dev-lang/nasm
+	sys-apps/findutils
+	$(llvm_gen_dep "
+		llvm-core/llvm:\${LLVM_SLOT}[${MY_LLVM_FLAGS}]
+		llvm-core/clang:\${LLVM_SLOT}[${MY_LLVM_FLAGS}]
+		llvm-core/lld:\${LLVM_SLOT}
+	")
+	uefi-cd? ( sys-fs/mtools )
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myconf=(
+		"$(use_enable bios)"
+		"$(use_enable bios-cd)"
+		"$(use_enable bios-pxe)"
+
+		"$(use_enable uefi-ia32)"
+		"$(use_enable uefi-x86-64)"
+		"$(use_enable uefi-aarch64)"
+		"$(use_enable uefi-riscv64)"
+		"$(use_enable uefi-loongarch64)"
+		"$(use_enable uefi-cd)"
+	)
+
+	econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	ewarn "Limine 12.0.0 and later forces hash verification for systems with Secure Boot"
+	ewarn "enabled if the config hash has been enrolled into the EFI binary with"
+	ewarn "'limine enroll-config'."
+	ewarn "If you're using Secure Boot, and are enrolling the config file hash, make sure"
+	ewarn "the config contains correct hashes for all files referenced within it."
+}