[hpsdr] JetPack TK1 now available for the Jetson TK1

[George Byrkit]

Phil,
The JetPack process tells you when to put the TK1 board into recovery mode.  You don't
have to do it before instructed to do so.  Or at least when using a physical system (not
VM) running  Ubuntu, I didn't have to put the TK1 into recovery mode until during the
running of 'JetPack', yet this was at the point where the process wanted to flash the TK1.
Possibly just English vs American here, in your description vs mine?

The JetPack installs R21.2, not 21.1.  So it's possible that the gig-e problem is fixed.
I do know that I'm running gig-e (and have an adaptive switch: 10/100/1000), and I have no
problems.

>From what I read, the JetPack does NOT install uBoot.  I'm not sure what the benefit of
using uBoot is, but from the list of features, it was described as NOT ABLE to boot from a
SATA device, I think.

And it sounds like after the process was completed, you have a successfully updated TK1!

73,
George K9TRV

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harman [mailto:phil at pharman.org] 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 2:41 AM
To: George Byrkit; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] JetPack TK1 now available for the Jetson TK1

Hi George,

Thanks for the tip since I was just about to flash my board the long way.

I used VMware to install Ubuntu V14.04 on a virtual machine on my Windows 
8.1 PC.

Just need to ensure that you have enough virtual disk space (the default 
20GB was not enough so I used 60GB to be safe) and that when starting Ubuntu 
you have the Jetson already in Recovery mode so that Ubuntu can see it - 
lsusb will confirm if not shown graphically.

I see there is a possible issue after loading R21.1 with Gigabit Ethernet in 
which case there is a fix here:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/799075/embedded-systems/jetson-tk1-r8169-netdev-w
atchdog-timeout-solved-/

73 Phil...VK6PH


-----Original Message----- 
From: George Byrkit
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:09 AM
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: [hpsdr] JetPack TK1 now available for the Jetson TK1

***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****

Yesterday, while home with a cold, I discovered that NVidia has recently put 
up something
called 'JetPack TK1' for the Jetson TK1.  This bit of software (about a 60mb 
download), is
a .run file for Linux systems, mostly Ubuntu 14.04, that makes it drop-dead 
easy to set up
the development environment AND build and install a new rootfs, etc on the 
Jetson TK1, in
a matter of hours.

I downloaded the .run file, copied it to my Ubuntu 14.04 system, and ran it, 
choosing
'complete' install.  This then downloaded all the needed CUDA development 
environment,
built a new rootfs, had me connect my TK1 via micro-USB cable (and do the 
'force recovery'
thing), flashed a new rootfs onto the TK1, this time with a working Ubuntu 
desktop (no
more command line required!), built and installed all the demo programs.

In short, it updated the rootfs on my TK1 from cuda 6.0 to latest cuda 6.5, 
the R21.2
(newer than the 21.1!) rootfs stuff, all without my having to study and 
follow many pages
of many different manuals.  They're making this way too easy!  They 
shouldn't do that!
Now, everyone will buy and experiment with a Jetson TK1!

73,
George K9TRV

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