[hpsdr] JetPack TK1 now available for the Jetson TK1

[Phil Harman]

Hi George,

I needed to ensure that Windows 8.1 could see the Jetson in Recovery mode 
before running the VMware version of Ubuntu.  Otherwise if I waited until 
Ubuntu was running and then set the Jetson to Recovery mode the load would 
fail.

Also need to run the Gig-e fix for R21.2 to work correctly at a Gigabit.

73 Phil...VK6PH

-----Original Message----- 
From: George Byrkit
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:42 PM
To: 'Phil Harman' ; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: RE: [hpsdr] JetPack TK1 now available for the Jetson TK1

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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